Adventures Among the Red Indians Romantic Incidents and Perils Amongst the Indians of North and South America

Indian insurgents and their rifles--The rising of 1793--March of Lieutenants Lowry and Boyd--The Indian attack--Sergeant Munson--Saving an officer's life--Walking into the battl...

Southern Indians as soldiers--Andresito Artegas--The war of 1818-20--An awkward time for British residents--The panic in Corrientes--The march of the Indian army--A magnanimous...

The Guaranian Family--A story of Don Pedro Campbell--Indians in pursuit--Ascencion and her sister captured--Taken to the _tolderia_--"The Cordoban soldiers are coming!"--Escape...

The Iroquoian family--Surgeon Bigsby--Coasting on Lake Ontario--A strange reception--Saluting "royalty"--Landing in the Indian village--The chief's remarkable speech--The excite...

U.S. Government and Indians--Captain Basil Hall, R.N.--The Creeks--A disappointment--The real Indians--A well-timed visit--The local band--The eve of a great festival--Dancing--...

Sir George Head--Across Nova Scotia--Up the St. John River--Indian salmon-spearing--A ducking for the Major--A novel method of life-saving--The guides' limit--A ferocious Cree--...

The Pesherahs of Tierra del Fuego--Admiral Fitzroy--Fuegians as boat-thieves--Hostages--An experiment--Fitzroy's second voyage--Met by the natives--Compliments and curiosity--A...

What's in a name?--Black Hawk--The Treaty of 1804--How it was kept--The Treaty of 1830--The beginning of the end--The Illinois militia--Through Wisconsin--Cholera--General Atkin...

Lieutenant Smyth, R.N.--The H.M.S. _Samarang_ survey--A rash offer--The Jevero Indians--The guides' opinion of their employers--How the mountain Indians defy hunger--Coca balls-...

John Lloyd Stephens--A delicate mission--Belize--Reception by the British Commanding Officer--Up the river--A genial Franciscan--Caught in the storm--A rude awakening--"Squaring...

Prince Adalbert of Prussia--Journey across South America--No guides--The Brazilian forest--A path discovered--Gathering cherries--The mysterious Carib--The visit to the village-...

Captain Wise, U.S.N.--Sent ashore at Monterey--The march of the boat's crew--A Yankee trapper settlement--News of the Apaches and Comanches--Indians in the pay of Mexico--Prepar...

Prevalence of Indian tribes in Bolivia--The Colla or Aymara people--Hugh de Bonelli--The Aymaras as walkers--A walk along Lake Titicaca--Seventy miles a day--The Moxos--A glorio...

The Hon. Henry Coke--Across the prairies--Bluffs--The Crow guide--Brought to a full stop--Bison in sight--Disappearance of the guide and some of the baggage--Pursuing him--A hop...

The Sierra Nevada--The Snakes, or Shoshonees--San Francisco--John Savage--Jose Jerez--Indian dissatisfaction--Impressing the savages--Trouble with drunken Indians--An anxious dr...

Julius Froebel--A hazardous project--A travelling Indian tribe--A hot march--Niquiran hospitality--"El Dorado"--A deserted village--The villagers' gold-mine--Froebel's reception...

Mexican Boundary Commission--John Russell Bartlett--An ethnologist's hunting-ground--Panic among horses and teamsters--The cause--A remarkable sight--A bison-surround--Wanton ca...

The Gran Chaco of Western Paraguay--Charles Blachford Mansfield--Up the Para--The madman's cold dip--Corrientes--Finding canoemen--The Indians--A dangerous landing-place--Pitchi...

Gustav Ferdinand von Tempsky--A risky journey--A tropical thunderstorm--A warm reception for the travellers--Mistaken for Indians--The road to Durango--"They have burnt another...

The Algonquin family--Charles Richard Weld--A holiday tour in Southern Canada--A coach ride over the prairie--Indian bullies--Getting rid of them--A rattlesnake hunt--Extraordin...

The Columbian gold find of 1857--H.M.S. _Plumper's_ task--Lieut. Mayne, R.N.--The Yale rising--Up the Fraser in a pinnace--Coming in at the end--The Indians' complaint--Night ma...

John Keast Lord--Across the Columbian Coast range--Disadvantage of an escort--Lord's best weapon of defence--"Held up" by Indians--Between danger and safety--The assailants beco...

Johann Georg Kohl--The Quebec Mohawks--The Indian village--Some of the villagers--Lodgings--The chief--His recollections and his house--His sons--Supper--The evening chat--Kohl...

The Athapascan family--The Chippewyans--Rev. C. Colton--From New York to the Saskatchewan--A curious demonstration--Making ready for the Chippewyans--The steam-launch aground--S...

Indians of Uruguay--Thomas Woodbine Hinchcliff--A solitary walk--The mountain-forest--Lost--A very remarkable bull--Sudden appearance of Indian cattle-hunters--Lassoing--Breakfa...

Thomas Hutchinson, F.R.S.--In Santa Fe--A fortunate meeting--The steam-launch--Up the Salado--The Gaucho farmstead--The Quiteno guide--His luggage--Warnings--Visit from the "man...

Venezuela--Don Ramon Paez--An extraordinary commission--Looking for Indians--Finding them--Native fishermen on the Orinoco--The _payara_ and the _caribe_--A vicious fish--In sea...

It has been said by certain historians that, after the American War of Independence, British agents were employed not only to poison the minds of those Siouan and Iroquoian trib...

The South American Indian, as a soldier, is a being about whom we English know very little. Of course we know that, centuries ago, he was a force to be reckoned with locally; we...

Till the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Guaranian Indians (with the Abipons and other sub-tribes) were in possession of a great part of Southern Brazil, Paraguay, and...

The Iroquoian branch of the red race is considered by the best authorities to be far superior, mentally and physically, to any other. Before British rule was definitely establis...

A great deal of abuse has been poured, from time to time, on the United States Government for its treatment of the North American Indians. In point of fact, much of this abuse w...

Sir George Head, elder brother of the great South American explorer and Colonial Governor, was a sort of Ralegh on a small scale, inasmuch as he figured in the various roles of...

Tierra Del Fuego--"The Land of Fire," as Maghelhaens christened it, from the number of beacons exhibited along its coast--is the home of a family of Indians properly known as Pe...

Some allowance ought surely to be made for a man who is condemned to go through life with such a name as Muckkertamesheckkerkerk; and, to do the United States Government justice...

The history of South America teems with accounts of arduous marches made by European explorers through its forests or deserts, across its mountains or along the banks of its riv...

In 1839, curious as to the rumours of general anarchy prevailing throughout most of the Central American countries, the United States Government sent a young Foreign Office offi...

Prince Adalbert of Prussia, a nephew of Friedrich Wilhelm III, is less remembered as a traveller than as a frequent visitor to this country, and one who sought to build up a Ger...

One of America's great naval commanders--Captain Henry Augustus Wise--made use of the opportunity afforded him by the Mexican War of 1846-7 to collect material for a very engros...

There is no part of the American continent, save perhaps Guatemala (and, of course, the Arctic Regions), where the Indian race has survived in such power and--relatively--such n...

There is nothing extraordinary to the English reader in a man's making a sixteen-hundred-mile journey across lonesome prairies and mountain-ranges, where railways are almost unk...

Till 1851, the peaks and valleys of the Californian Sierra Nevada were known only as a grim, mysterious region that white men, who valued their lives, would do well not to pry i...

A somewhat adventurous career fell to the lot of the late Julius Froebel, a nephew of the great Friedrich Froebel of "Kindergarten" fame. Having devoted his early manhood to jou...

From the foregoing chapter it will have been seen that Mexico, in the middle of the nineteenth century, was not a neighbourhood wherein a man might look to find rest and quiet;...

The Gran Chaco, or "great hunting-ground" of Western Paraguay, is a land of wooded plains and little patches of primeval forest, about which astonishingly little is known even t...

It is a fact generally acknowledged throughout the American continent, that the Indian population have never yet failed to take advantage of war, revolution, or other political...

We have already spoken, in Chapter VIII, of the Algonquin branch of the red race. This vast family, comprising Ojibewas, Shawnees, Crees, Araphoes, Blackfeet, etc., once owned p...

While human nature is what it is, the sudden discovery of gold in any country must ever be the signal for all the available flotsam and jetsam and riff-raff of society to flock...

In a former volume[4] the writer has related a hunting adventure which befell the late Lieutenant John Keast Lord; but, as the career of this intrepid traveller was so full of r...

A very voluminous writer, and an explorer of no small repute in Germany--Johann Georg Kohl--has drawn up, from personal experience, as exhaustive an account of the Mohawk sectio...

The Athabaskan or Athapascan family of Indians may be found anywhere between Alaska and Manitoba, and some of the more unsettled or enterprising tribes have even wandered as far...

Taken as a whole the Indians of Uruguay are--and have ever been--a brave but peace-loving people, engaged principally in sheep and cattle-rearing. No doubt the mildness of their...

When poor Charles Mansfield made his journey up to the unknown Chaco, he passed, on his way, a district equally unknown at that time: the valley of the Salado River, which remai...

South America is the land of revolution and civil war, and Venezuela has not been far behind the other republics in its indulgence in such pastimes. In 1864, five out of seven p...