Transcriber’s Note
Reading edition
The intent of the corrections listed below is to restore the text to the author's intent, as best as that can be surmised. Many corrections occur on the right margin, where final letters and punctuation did not survive. Usually, a space is left to show where a missing character should have appeared.
Clear typographical errors (e.g. “emcamped” for “encamped", “atlar” for “altar”) have also been corrected. A non-standard or variable spelling has been left as printed, unless it is the sole instance of a word repeatedly otherwise spelled (e.g. characterestic (1) / characteristic (35)).
Minor inconsistencies of punctuation have been resolved. On occasion, the quotation marks, especially, have been added where the quotation extends across paragraphs. If an ending mark has been omitted, it has been added. Usually, but not always, a space is left where a missing character should have appeared.
The spelling of names of persons and places, especially when derived from Indian dialects vary considerably. For instance “Allegheny” is also found multiple times as “Alleghany” and “Allegany”. “Ottawa” and “Ottowa” are each found several times. Nabinoi / Nabanoi / Nabunwa seem to refer to the same Ojibwa elder. Nearly all such variants are left as printed, except where explicitly noted below.
Words that were hyphenated at the ends of line have been joined with or without the hyphen, depending on the frequency of the word's spelling elsewhere. No attempt was made to regularize other cases. They are kept as printed.
Characters that have been removed, corrected, or which have been added are noted using [] as delimiters. Where misprinted characters are changed, the original and corrected characters are noted as [x/y], where x is the original. Punctuation corrections are not included in this list.
Corrections
Page Correction Comment
7 river at Brattleboro[,'/',] The apostrophe may have been meant. A contraction of Brattleborough, which in 1848 had yet to be abbreviated. It should precede the comma.
19 not two free sic.
40 irridescen[t] Added
40 brought us to a Mr. Murphy[']s Added.
42 mounta[ni/in]ous Added.
44 inj[u]re Added.
44 thus uniting character[e/i]stics of three varieties Corrected.
51 Gascon[a]de river[.] Added.
52 highten sic.
59 e[m/n]camped Corrected.
71 CONST[IT]UTION Added.
75 som[e]times Added.
76 horriffic sic.
88 On another [a/o]ccasion Corrected.
93 Senecas was discovered, turnin[g] Added.
102 calling ou[t] Added.
114 assured that th[s/e] cord Corrected.
124 had made [u/a]n Corrected.
124 Many days pass[s]ed Removed.
145 fate of their chiefta[i]n Added to match spelling in following line.
148 necessary to gla[n]ce backward Added.
153 such a bloody fellow was [al-]allowed Line break hyphenation error corrected.
179 allowed a li[s/t]tle time Corrected.
189 brass p[i]eces Added.
189 Ozaw[a/á]biks Corrected to match all other occurences.
193 to smoke [and ]and not to throw Removed doubled ‘and’.
200 INTERPR[E]TER Added.
203 geogra[p/g]hical Corrected.
212 a[tl/lt]ar Corrected.
225 r[aph/hap]sodies Corrected.
227 ∞ and ∞ Represent the figure 8, set horizontally, per FN on p. 227.
227 My soul he doth restore aga[in] Missing characters inferred.
233 modes of [of ]life Line break error corrected.
234 the present [e/a]rea of Corrected.
250 [t/T]hey are a brave and warlike people Corrected.
252 Lou[i]siana Added.
273 the[ the ]word itself Line break repetition removed.
274 Ke dizz[i]hewäbizziwin onishishin. Removed, based on following text.
280 Ween ishkwa[n/u]dj Corrected based on adjacent text.
282 Pos[s]essive Corrected based on adjacent text.
288 in upper Louis[ai/ia]na Corrected to adjacent text.
290 s[t]eatites Corrected to match all other spellings.
290 Michili[n/m]ackinac Corrected to match all other spellings.
303 r[yh/hy]me Corrected.
307 succes[s]ful Added to match all other spellings.
308 [c.] Waban is from ab, or wab, light. Italicized to match a., b., d.
313 char[a]cter Added.
319 arr[r]ived Removed.
332 with[ ]them Added.
332 [e/a]quatic Corrected.
343 retur[n]ed Added.
377 the amount of funds invested by the government in stocks, for the Indians,was $2,580,000, on which the annual interest paid to them was $131,05[0]. ‘0’ added, consistent with 5% interest rate. See similar statements on p. 379.
386 Del[e/a]wares Corrected.
398 [3.] THE HARE AND THE LYNX. The number of the tale was moved to the title, in order to be consistent with the convention for the following two tales.
402 Feb[r]uary Added.
404 [E/C]. F. HOFFMAN. Corrected, reference to Charles Fenno Hoffman.
415 Blood of the Dauntless* Footnote * missing, anchor removed.
415 Mine, whose grave-pennon floats† Footnote † missing, anchor removed.