he story of our captivity has proved a source of entertainment to
the reader--if it haply excites a feeling of sympathy and interest for
the many wretched captives who yet remain in a servitude worse than
death among the rude tribes of the West--if it renders the general
public more familiar with a region of which so little is known--if
should chance to afford to those officials of our government, to whom
the subject is relegated, any new views in reference to the proper
method of dealing with the Indians--if it accomplishes any of these
ends, I shall be more than repaid for my labor in its preparation.

My thanks are also due to my kind friend, Dr. Clark Johnson, without
whom opportune aid this book would never have been written.

And now kind reader, for the present at least, _farewell_.

THE END.

TO THE PUBLIC.

As there has been considerable inquiry concerning the remedy to which
allusion is herein made, I will, by way of explanation, make the
following statement, which will relieve me from a large amount of
correspondence with anxious inquirers.

The remedy is the most remarkable purifier of the blood that I have ever
known; it is a tonic, a diuretic, a nervine, and a gentle laxative. Is
is alterative, sudorific, soporific, and deobstruent.

These qualities, harmoniously blended into one single remedy, make one
of the very best combinations which can possibly be taken into the human
system.

It is a very remarkable remedy in disease of the stomach. Dyspepsia
cannot exist any length of time if the remedy be taken as directed,
_instantly_ after eating.

All Diseases of the Liver and Bowels readily succumb to its magic
influence, while all nervous diseases and all diseases of the blood are
speedily eradicated by the peculiar elements in its composition, which
act directly upon such difficulties.

We have thousands upon thousands of certificates from persons who have
been afflicted with various maladies, and who have been cured by the use
of this remedy; and I am, myself, frequently made surprised to learn
what wonderful results follow the use of this medicine.

The remedy, Dr. CLARK JOHNSON'S INDIAN BLOOD SYRUP, is sold by
agents in nearly every post-village in the United States; but wherever
it happens that I do _not_ have an agent, I shall be glad to make one,
and would invite honorable persons to communicate with me upon the
subject of an agency.

_I require no money from agents except as th