i. 348, 350, 351;

strange customs of, i. 352; their hostile disposition toward the French, ii. 5, 7, 8; murder Annean’s party, ii. 13; persecute the Mandans, ii. 17; their enmity toward the Snake Indians, ii. 27; sub-tribes of, ii. 34.

Sioux mission, the, ii. 6.

Six Nations, the, i. 274; see also Five Nations, the.

Skene Mountain, ii. 238.

Slade, Dr. Daniel Denison, i. 68; ii. 244.

Small-pox, among the Mandans, ii. 17.

Smead, Captivity, ii. 252; death of, ii. 255.

Smead, John, ii. 252; killed by the Indians, ii. 255.

Smead, Mrs. John, ii. 252; death of, ii. 255.

Smibert, the painter, gives a portrait of Pepperrell, ii. 73.

Smith, i. 147; ii. 54, 208; on the disputes of Governor Clinton and the Assembly, ii. 209.

Smith, Captain, ii. 261.

Smollett, on the plan to attack Louisbourg, ii. 64; on the capture of Louisbourg, ii. 142; 409 on the absurdities of the Duke of Newcastle, ii. 151; on the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, ii. 256.

Snake Indians, the, ii. 20, 26; their enmity toward the Sioux, ii. 27; the Bow Indians make an attack on, ii. 30-33.

Snelling, i. 344.

“Snow,” a, ii. 83.

Snow, E. A., ii. 43.

Soissons, Count de, ii. 268.

Sokokis Indians, the, i. 256.

Sorel, town of, i. 78.

Southack, Captain, relieves Falmouth, i. 46.

South Carolina, the broad river of, i. 182; ii. 48.

South Fork, the, i. 367.

South Sea, the, i. 164.

Souvigny, Ensign, ii. 293, 311.

Spafford, John, Jr., at Number Four, ii. 219, 220.

Spain, Great Britain gains a maritime preponderance over, i. 3; Louis XIV. places his grandson on the throne of, i. 4; bent on making good her claim to the Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico, i. 301; protests against the French establishment at Mobile Bay, i. 305; ii. 270.

Spaniards of New Mexico, the, i. 359; advance to attack the French, i. 360.

Spaniards, the, occupy Texas, i. 355; in the lower Missouri, ii. 17.

Spanish River, i. 177, 181.

Spanish Succession, the War of the, i. 3; springs from the ambition of Louis XIV., i. 4; i. 134; ii. 9.

Sparhawk, Nathaniel, ii. 115, 116; at Louisbourg, ii. 136.

Sparks, i. 229, 249; ii. 70.

Spurwink, Indian attack at, i. 44.

“Squirrel,” the, i. 224.

Stanwood, ii. 327.

Stebbins, Abigail, i. 89; marriage of, i. 90.

Stebbins, Benoni, i. 58; killed by the French and Indians, i. 63.

Stebbins, Mrs. Benoni, i. 63.

Steele, i. 147, 195.

Stevens, B. F., ii. 229.

Stevens, Captain Phineas, at Number Four, ii. 219, 220; sent to reoccupy the fort at Number Four, ii. 222; characteristics of, ii. 222; attacked by Niverville, ii. 223; his defence of the fort, ii. 224; his letters to Colonel Williams, ii. 224, 225, 226, 228; his interview with Niverville, ii. 226; refuses to surrender, ii. 226; recognition of his successful defence, ii. 228; letter, to Governor Shirley from, ii. 229; diary of, ii. 229.

Stoddard, escapes from Deerfield, i. 62.

Stoddard, John, ii. 219, 232, 243.

Stone, on the disputes of Governor Clinton and the Assembly, ii. 209.

Stone, William L., ii. 248.

Storer, John, ii. 80.

Storer, Joseph, palisaded house of, i. 39; fugitives at, i. 43.

Storer, Mary, captured by the Indians, i. 44.

Stuarts, the, i. 105.

Stuckley, Captain, in the expedition against Port Royal, i. 130.

Subercase, governor of Acadia, on the French and Indian attack on Haverhill, i. 102; on the Acadian fisheries question, i. 111, 112; his anxiety over the trade between the “Bastonnais” and the 410 Acadians, i. 116; on Bonaventure’s relations with Madame de Freneuse, i. 116; his quarrel with De Goutin, i. 117; in the defence of Port Royal, i. 127; on the failure of the English expedition against Port Royal,