AAlkali, natural deposits of, 60.Antelope, first seen, 29, how hunted, 69.Assiniboins, at war with Sioux, 49.BBeaver, hunted as game, 70,Beaver Head, 143.Big Dry River, 75.Bismarck, N. D., 44.Bitter Root Mountains, 147.Black Cat, a Mandan chief, 342.Boone, Daniel, 14.Buffalo, first signs of, 16; hunt, 51; curious adventure with, 87;extermination of, 338.CCaches, how built, 98.Calumet bird, 43.Camas, edible root, 179.Cameahwait, a Shoshonee chief, 157.Camp, first winter, 48; departure from, 57.Candle-fish, 252.Cannonball River, N. D-, 43.Captain Cook, 3.Captain Gray, 3.Captain Vancouver, 3.Carroll, Mont., 83.Carver, Jonathan, 5.Cascades of the Columbia, 262.Cathedral Rocks, 90-92.Cheyenne River, 40.Chinook Indians, 208, some account of, 246.Chouteau, a St. Louis trader, 355.Christmas (1804), 52. (1805), 240-Clark, Captain, biographical notice Of, 7.general of militia, 359.Clark’s Fort, 48.river, 180-63.party overtaken by disaster, 142.Clatsop Indians, some account Of, 248.Clearwater River, 183.Cloudburst, 116.Columbia River, discovery Of, 4.portage to, 108;at the headwaters of, 148.at the entrance to, 194.great falls of, 202;the great chute Of, 21.et seq. Comowol, a Columbia River Indianchief, 239.Condor, a California variety, 256.Council Bluffs, 19.Cowas, an edible root, 278.Coyote, described, 72.Crow Indians, 24.DDalles, the, 266.Dearborn River, 130.Divide, on the great, 148;across the, 179.Dog’s flesh as an article of food, 24.185-EEcheloot Indians, 210.Elk, hunting of, 251.Ermine, first seen, 49.Expedition, Lewis and Clark’s, 7.Organization of, 8.route of, 10;sets sail, 14.“Experiment,” failure of the boat, 124FFalls of the Missouri, 101.description of, 11. et seq.Flathead Indians, 211.Floyd’s River, why so named, 23.Forks of the Missouri, 135.Fort Clark, 48.Clatsop, 255.GGallatin’s fork of the Missouri, 135.Gates of the Rocky Mountains, 132.Goose-nests in trees, 61.gray, Capt., discoverer of the Columbia, 3.Grizzly bear, first seen, 40.thrilling encounters with, 72, 76, 77, 105, 115, 315-HHorse-flesh eaten by the expedition, 77.Hungry Creek, 178, 303-1Independence Day, celebration of (1805), 123.(180(i), 327.Iowa Indians, 16.Islands, White Bear, 110.JJefferson, President Thomas, 2-4.his letters to Capt. Lewis, 12.presents to,from Lewis and Clark, 55.welcome to Capt. Lewis on return, 358.name givento fork of the Missouri, 135.John Day’s River, 203-KKlikitat River, 214.Kooskooskee River, 180.LLewis, Capt., biographical notice of, 6, 7.accidentally wounded, 341;announces his return, 358.Governor of Louisiana Territory, 359;his tragical death, 360.Lewis and Clark, pursue separate routes acrossthe Divide, 140.also on their return, 310.Lewis’s River, 165.Lewiston, Idaho, 185.Ledyard, John, 4.Lemhi River, 152.Little Devils, hill Of, 23.Louisiana Purchase, the, 1-2;divided into two territories, 360.MMadison, fork of the Missouri, 135.Mandan Indians, 4. et seq.;religion of, 50.Maria’s River, 97.Medicine River, 106.Meriwether’s Bay, 234.Milk River, 74.Minnetarees, at warwith Sioux, 49.expedition has an encounter with, 31. et seq,Missouri River, Little, 60.Missouri, the Upper, So; great falls of, 101;forks of, 135.at the headwaters Of, 147.Mosquitoes, the greatplague of, 126, 339.Mount St. Helen’s, 198.Hood, 203.Mouse River, source of, 60.Multnomah (Willamette) River, 221.259.Musselshell River, 81.NNez Perce Indians (Chopunnish), 180.some account of the, 186.Noises, mysterious, 122.0Osage Indians, traditions of, 15.Ottoes, council with, 20.PPacific Ocean, first sight of the, 225.Pawpaw fruit, 357.Pemmican, 33.Platte River as a boundary, 17.Porcupine River, 70.Prairie dog, 29.Q Quamash flats, 302.Quicksand River, 220.RRat, peculiar variety of, 121.Rickarees, in the countryof the, 40.River, Little Missouri, to; Mouse, source of, 60;Yellowstone, 65.Porcupine, 70.Saskatchewan, 74.Milk, 74;Big Dry, 75.Upper Missouri, 80.Musselshell, 81.Slaughter, 88;Maria’s, 97.Madison, 106.Columbia, portage to, 108.Smith’s, 129;Dearborn, 130.Salmon, 152.Lemhi, 152.Lewis’s, 165.Kooskooskee, 180;Clark’s, 180.Clearwater, 183.Snake, 188.Yakima, 196.John Day’S, 203;Klikitat, 21.Quicksand, 220.Multnomah. 220.Rocky Mountains,first sight of, 85.sheep, 85.gates of the, 132.farewell tothe mountains, 335.Rocks, Cathedral, 90-92.SSt. Louis, village of, 11.first post-office in, 359.Sacajawea, joins the expedition, 4.stream named for her, 82;story of her capture, 138.finds her own people, 160.a tribute toher memory, 332.Sage-brush, first seen, 62.Saline County, Mo., 16.Salmon River, 152.City, Idaho, 165.abundance of fish, 194.Salt, made from sea-water, 23.et seq. Saskatchewan River, 74.Shannon, the lost hunter, 143.Shoshonees, first meeting with, 14.among the, 15.et seq.; some account of the, 17.et seq.Sioux Indians, 27.Slaughter River, 88.Smith’s River, 128.Snake River, 188.junction of the with Columbia, 190.Sokulk Indians, some account of, 19.et seq. Spirit Mound, 24.Spring River, S. D-; 42.Stone-Idol Creek, legend Of, 42.Sweat baths, Indian, 187, 298.TTetons, in the country of, 33-38.Three-thousand-mile Island, 331.Tillamook Indians, 244.Traveller’s-rest Creek, 309.Twisted-hair, an Indian chief, adventures with, 28. et seq.U Umatilla, 271-VVancouver, Capt-y 3-WWahkiacum Indians, 224.Walla Walla, 271.Wappatoo, edible root, 23.description of, 260.Weocksockwillacums, 265.Wharfington, commands return party to the U. S., 58.White Bear Islands, 110.camp at, 114.Whisky, Indian rejectionof, 42.Winter camp, first, 48.departure from, 57-YYakima River, 196.Yankton, S. D., 24.Yellowstone River, 65;Capt. Clark’s descent of the, 327.York, a negro servant, 41. 159.