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Title: Our Caughnawagas in Egypt
a narrative of what was seen and accomplished by the
contingent of North American Indian voyageurs who led the
British boat Expedition for the Relief of Khartoum up the
Cataracts of the Nile.

Author: Louis Jackson

Commentator: T. S. Brown

Release Date: June 27, 2010 [EBook #32995]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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A narrative of what was seen and
accomplished by the Contingent
of North American Indian Voyageurs
who led the British Boat
Expedition for the Relief
of KHARTOUM up
the Cataracts of
the NILE.

OUR CAUGHNAWAGAS IN EGYPT.

BY
LOUIS JACKSON
OF CAUGHNAWAGA.

CAPTAIN OF THE CONTINGENT,

With an introductory Preface
By T. S. BROWN, Esq.

Montreal:
WM. DRYSDALE & CO.,
PUBLISHERS, BOOKSELLERS AND STATIONERS,
232 ST. JAMES STREET.
1885.

Entered according to Act of Parliament, in the year one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-five

BY LOUIS JACKSON,

in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture and Statistics at Ottawa.

[Illustration: LOUIS JACKSON, Captain of the Contingent.]

PREFACE.

The Indians of Caughnawaga are an offshoot from the Mohawks, one of the
divisions of the Six Nations, formerly in pseudo occupation of western
New York, and known to the French by the general name of Iroquois. Long
before the cession of this Province to Great Britain, they were settled
at the head of the rapids of the St. Lawrence opposite Lachine, on a
tract of land ten miles square, or 64,000 acres held in common, but
lately separated into lots to be divided among the people as individual
property.

Contrary to what has been the too common fate of aborigines brought into
close contact with foreigners, the Caughnawagas, with some mixture of
white blood, have