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OF THE

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INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA.

FROM ITS FIRST DISCOVERY TO THE PRESENT TIME;

COMPRISING

DETAILS IN THE LIVES OF ALL THE MOST DISTINGUISHED CHIEFS AND
COUNSELLORS, EXPLOITS OF WARRIORS, AND THE CELEBRATED
SPEECHES OF THEIR ORATORS;

ALSO,

A HISTORY OF THEIR WARS,

MASSACRES AND DEPREDATIONS, AS WELL AS THE WRONGS AND
SUFFERINGS WHICH THE EUROPEANS AND THEIR
DESCENDANTS HAVE DONE THEM;

WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR

Antiquities, Manners and Customs,
Religion and Laws;

LIKEWISE

EXHIBITING AN ANALYSIS OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED, AS WELL AS ABSURD
AUTHORS, WHO HAVE WRITTEN UPON THE GREAT QUESTION OF THE

With large Additions and Corrections, and numerous Engravings.

BOSTON:

ANTIQUARIAN INSTITUTE, 56 CORNHILL.

1837.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1836,

BY JOSIAH DRAKE,

In the Clerks Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

TO

HIS EXCELLENCY

EDWARD EVERETT, LL D.

SIR:

WITH the idea of a Dedication to this my New Edition of the Biography and History of the Indians, your name was coeval. The association was inseparable; nor could it have been otherwise, as it seems to me, in the mind of any young man of New England, engaged in a similar undertaking. For it would be absurd, were he to ask himself, "Who has been the most prominent assertor of the red man's rights in his country's councils, or the most ardent friend of the young men of his own race?" Under these considerations, therefore, to say nothing of my own gratification, I could not do otherwise than assign this page to you; and could the author be assured, that his work would be as long remembered, for any merit contained in it, as the name he is gratified to honor, his anxiety for its fate would from that moment

ceasc.

However great the disparity may appear, when the value of my labors are considered, in respect to those of others, it must be remembered, that one of the most predominant traits in your Excellency's character, is your readiness to extend a fostering hand to all such as are engaged in laudable undertakings.

The well-informed do not require to be told, that many a well-directed mind has been diverted from a pursuit in which it would have excelled, but for the cold and blasting hand of the hypercritic. Such, however, it has not been my lot, yet, to encounter; and although the countenance of one, illustrious in the annals of true criticism, may not further protect me, I have the satisfaction of believing that the success of my labors can scarcely be affected by the unkindness of critics.

Accept, Dear Sir, my most grateful acknowledgments for all former kind attentions, and believe me

Yours in duty,

S. G. DRAKE.

DRAKE'S

ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSTORE,

OR

INSTITUTE OF MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE, 56 CORNHILL, FORMERLY MARKET STREET,

BOSTON,

Has been established six years, and, by the unsparing pains of its conductor, has become an extensive Depository of Ancient and Modern Science and Literature. Its

main objects are briefly as follow:

I. To collect, and keep constantly for sale, all kinds of valuable New and Second-hand Books, and to afford them much below the common retail prices;

II. To make it especially a depository of Second-hand Classical and School Books, where students and others may exchange such works as they have no further use for, for new ones, or others second-hand, such as they may want ;

II. That thereby Books used in Colleges, Academies, and Common Schools, may always be had, (and often as good as new,) for about half the original cost ;

IV. To keep an assortment of the most suitable works for gentlemen's libraries, also for all public libraries, upon the same reasonable terms;

V. And, in particular, to collect works of every description relating to the history of the United States of America, general and particular;-such, for example, as

Holmes's Annals of America,
Robertson's History of do.
Trumbull's United States,
Graham's do. 2 v. 8vo. London,
Hinton's do. 2 v. 4to. London,
Do. Knapp's edition,
Perkins's do.
Bancroft's do.

Hale, Goodrich, Grimshaw, and
Snowden's do. (School Books)
Marshall's Life Washington,
Wilkinson's Memoirs,
Allen's American Biography,
Sparks's do.

Thatcher's Medical do.

A large Collection of American

Biographical Dictionaries,
Mather's Magnalia,
Douglass's America,
Morton's Memorial, Davis's and
other editions,
Hubbard, Hoyt, Church, Math-
er, M'Clung and Flint's His-
tories of Indian Wars,
Various Histories of the Revo-
lutionary and late Wars.
Baylies' History N. Plymouth,
Farmer's Genealogical Register,
Collections of Hist. Societies,
Histories of New England, &c.
Williamson's Maine,
Belknap's New Hampshire,

Williams's Vermont,
Hutchinson and others' Mass.,
Trumbull's Connecticut,
Smith and others' New York,
Proud's Pennsylvania,
Gordon's do.
Gordon's N. Jersey,
Bozman's Maryland,
Smith and others' Virginia,
Williamson's N. Carolina,
Ramsay's S. Carolina,
M'Call's Georgia,

Martin and others' Louisiana,
Marshall's Kentucky,
Flint's Western States,

Hall's Works on the West, &c.

Among the Local Histories are those of
Boston-Lynn-Rehoboth-Ipswich-Salem-Portland-Portsmouth-Worcester

Coun.Watertown-Quincy-Concord-Saco-Plymouth-and of various other towns in New EngJand-Philadelphia-Wyoming-Long-Island-Tryon Co.-Cincinnati-Louisville, &c.

Among the Voyages and Travels of those whose works are valuable, are,

Volney,

Carver,

Mackenzie,

Gass,
Saxe-Weimar,
Brackenridge.
Darby,

J. Long,

Tanner,

Lahontan,

Wright,

Lewis & Clark,

Lafayette,

Sutcliff,

Chastellux,

Dwight,

Kendall,

Dwight,

Bartram,

Schultz,

Nuttall,

Morse,

Ker,
Harmon,

The following Standard Works may be particularized :—

North American, Edinburgh, and Quarterly Reviews-Encyclopedias-Webster, Johnson and Walker, Worcester and Bailey's Dictionaries-Quarto, Octavo, School, Pearl and Diamond and Polyglot Bibles-Josephus, Rollin, Hume, Gibbon and Clarendon's Histories Johnson, Byron, Smollett, Sterne, Goldsmith, Cowper, Young and Milton's Works-Scott's Bible-Calmet's Dictionary of the Bible-Cruden's Concordance-Aiken, Hazlitt and Southey's British Poets-Lawrence's Lectures-Nicholson's Operative Mechanic-Neal's History of the Puritans-Jefferson's Works-Ferguson's Rome-Gillies' Greece-Godman's Natural History-Fielding, Pope, Scott, Moore, Shakspeare, Plutarch, Bunyan, Addison, Locke and Johnson's Works.

Also, Writing and Letter Paper-Albums-A great variety of Novels-Works on Mathematics, Philosophy, Medicine, Law, Theology, Agriculture, Chemistry, Geology, &c. &c. Many of the above in quantities.

In general, any books on hand will be EXCHANGED for others.-All old Tracts, Pamphlets, or Books, relating to the history of this country, will be received in payment for others, or CASH given for them, if valuable.

BOSTON, Aug. 1836.

N. B.-The proprietor of the ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSTORE would notify the public, that this is the first and only establishment of the kind in the country, although, by way of confusion, some persons next door to us have called their place the "Antique Boke Store;" from which interference some inconvenience has been experienced by our customers, as well as ourselves. This, therefore, is to give our friends and the public notice, that the "Antique” is not the ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSTORE