E-text prepared by Greg Bergquist, Melissa McDaniel, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 38784-h.htm or 38784-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/38784/pg38784-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38784/38784-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/earlywesterntrav22thwa Transcriber's note: This book's editors sought to "reproduce the old text as closely as practicable, with its typographic and orthographic peculiarities." The transcriber has honored that intent. The pagination of the original journal edition here reprinted is indicated by enclosing, within brackets, the number of the page at its beginning, e.g. [pg. 24]. Unnumbered illustration pages have been moved to the closest reference in the text. Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). Early Western Travels 1748-1846 Volume XXII Early Western Travels 1748-1846 A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, during the Period of Early American Settlement Edited with Notes, Introductions, Index, etc., by Reuben Gold Thwaites, LL.D. Editor of "The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents," "Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition," "Hennepin's New Discovery," etc. Volume XXII PART I OF MAXIMILIAN, PRINCE OF WIED'S, TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF NORTH AMERICA, 1832-1834 Cleveland, Ohio The Arthur H. Clark Company 1906 Copyright 1906, by The Arthur H. Clark Company All Rights Reserved The Lakeside Press R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company Chicago CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXII PREFACE TO VOLUMES XXII-XXIV. _The Editor_ 9 TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF NORTH AMERICA. [Part I, being chapters i-xv of the London edition, 1843.] _Maximilian, Prince of Wied._ Translated from the German by _Hannibal Evans Lloyd_ Author's Preface 25 Translator's Preface 31 Text: CHAPTER I--Voyage to Boston, Stay in that City, and Journey to New York, from May 17th to July 9th, 1832 37 CHAPTER II--Stay in New York, Philadelphia, and Bordentown, from the 9th to the 16th of July 57