istake not, by the white people resident in the
neighbourhood, "The Sacrifice Rock," and is still deeply venerated by
the few Indians spared by the cupidity of the Pilgrims and their
descendants.

Lewis and Clarke, in the account of their Travels across the Rocky
Mountains, (vol. i. p. 163) speaking of the national great Memahopa, or
"Medicine Stone," of the Mandans, remarks: "This Medicine Stone is the
great oracle of the Mandans, and, whatever it announces, is received
with the most implicit confidence. Every spring, and on some occasions
during the summer, a deputation visits the sacred spot, where there is a
thick porous stone, twenty feet in circumference, with a smooth surface.
Having reached the place, the ceremony of smoking to it is performed by
the deputies, who alternately take a, whiff themselves, and then present
the pipe to the stone; after this, they retire to the adjoining wood for
the night, during which it may be safely presumed, that all the embassy
do not sleep. In the morning, they read the destinies of the nation in
the white marks on the stone."

(2) _The mulberry bark._--p. 187.

The Dress of the Indian women.--The dress of the Indian females is
regulated, of course, by the nature of the climate. The Southern
Indians, by which I mean those occupying the tract of country which is
now parcelled out into the States of Louisiana, Florida, Missouri,
Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, at the period of its first settlement
by the whites, wore cloaks of the bark of the mulberry tree, or of the
feathers of swans, turkeys, &c. The bark they procured from the young
mulberry shoots that came up from the roots of the trees which had been
cut down. After it was dried in the sun, they beat it to make all the
woody part fall off; and then gave the threads that remained a handsome
beating; after which, they bleached them by exposing them to the dew.
When they were well whitened, they spun them about the coarseness of
pack-thread, and wove them in the following manner: two stakes were set
in the ground about a yard and a half asunder; having stretched a cord
from one to the other, they fastened their threads of bark, double, to
this cord, and then interlaced them in a curious manner into a cloak of
about a yard square, with a wrought border round the edges. Such is
nearly the description given by Du Pratz in his history of Louisiana.

(3) _Willow cage_.--p. 189.

Indian children, instead of being placed in cr