Produced by Larry B. Harrison, Robert Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) INDIAN SKETCHES, TAKEN DURING AN EXPEDITION TO THE PAWNEE AND OTHER TRIBES OF AMERICAN INDIANS. BY JOHN T. IRVING, JUNIOR. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. MDCCCXXXV. TO HENRY L. ELLSWORTH, ESQ. DEAR SIR, Having accompanied you throughout the whole of your bold and perilous expedition to the Pawnee Towns, permit me to congratulate you upon its success, and upon the benefits secured both to your own countrymen, and to the wild tribes beyond the border, by your enterprise and self-devotion. With me it was the juvenile excursion of a minor, where every thing was fraught with novelty and pleasurable excitement; but with you it was an official undertaking, full of anxiety and forethought, and I cannot but fear that to the cares of your office was occasionally added solicitude for the safety of your young and heedless fellow-traveller. As it was partly at your own suggestion that the following pages were written, I beg you will accept this dedication of them as a slight testimonial of my respect and esteem, and an acknowledgment of the kindness manifested by you throughout our wild campaign. If they present but imperfect sketches of the vivid scenes we have witnessed together, you will recollect that they are the first attempts of an inexperienced pencil. THE AUTHOR. CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. * * * * * INTRODUCTION. Page Introductory Account of the Object of the Expedition, and the Persons who composed it 1 CHAPTER I. The Indian Country 9 CHAPTER II. The Rangers.—Indian Habits.—Crossing the Kanzas River 19 CHAPTER III. Shawanese and the Delawares 29 CHAPTER IV. The Prairie.—Arrival at Fort Leavenworth 35 CHAPTER V.