[2] The Hudson's Bay Company is so called by the American trappers.

[3] A small lake near the head waters of the Yellow Stone, near which are some curious thermal springs of ink-black water.

[4] The Aztecs are supposed to have built this city during their migration to the south; there is little doubt, however, but that the region extending from the Gila to the Great Salt Lake, and embracing the province of New Mexico, was the locality from which they emigrated.

[5] Creoles of St Louis, and French Canadians.

[6] "On the prairie," is the Indian term for a free gift.

[7] Ancient and Modern Art, historical and critical. By George Cleghorn, Esq. 2 vols. Blackwoods. 1848.

[8] Five Years in Kaffirland, with Sketches of the Late War in that Country. Written on the Spot. By Harriet Ward. Two vols. London, 1848.

The Cape and its Colonists, with Hints to Settlers, in 1848. By George Nicholson, Jun., Esq., a late Resident. London, 1848.

Three Years' Cruise in the Mozambique Channel, for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. By Lieut. Barnard, R.N. London, 1848.

[9] Five Years in Kaffirland, vol. ii. p. 167-8.

[10] Five Years in Kaffirland, vol. i. pp. 35-6.

[11] Fingos, Kaffirs, and Hottentots, make use of a band or handkerchief, drawn tightly round the body, to deaden the pain of hunger; as the gnawing agony of famine increases, the ligature is tightened accordingly.—Five Years in Kaffirland, vol. i., p. 102.

[12] Five Years in Kaffirland, vol. i. p. 304.

[13] Ib., vol. ii. p. 191-2.

[14] The Cape and its Colonists, p. 114.

[15] Eastern Life, Past and Present. By Harriet Martineau.

[16] The following singular story of circumstantial evidence is compressed from a collection of criminal trials, published at Amsterdam under the title "Oorkonden uit de Gedenkschriften van het Strafregt, en uit die der menschlyke Mishappen; te Amsterdam. By J. C. Van Kersleren, 1820." Notwithstanding the somewhat romantic complexion of the incidents, it has been included as genuine in the recent German collection, Der Neue Pitaval. 7 Band.

[17] A mineral spring in the parish of Vinding, dedicated to St Matthew by the monks of a neighbouring convent, which existed there previously to the Reformation.