Note 55 — Front matter

Here the writer no doubt refers to the mutilated and meretricious issue of the Lewis and Clark Journals, published by William Fisher of Baltimore during 1812. As a contribution to the literature of the subject, the volume is entirely devoid of worth and statements concerning linguistics or events have little value. Coues, in his edition of the Lewis and Clark Travels, gives full details of this publication. See also the present writer’s Bibliography of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Literary Collector, March, 1902. In Thwaites’ edition of the Original Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1904, (Vol. I, page 45), Ayauway is noted, as an early form of spelling.