Excerpt from Memoirs of a Captivity Among the Indians of North America, From Childhood to the Age of Nineteen Be it remembered, that on the eighth day of February, in the forty-seventh year of the independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1823, John D. Hunter of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as Author in the words following, to wit: "Manners and Customs of several Indian tribes located west of the Mississippi; including some account of the Soil, Climate, and Vegetable productions, and the Indian Materia Medica: To which is prefixed the History of the Author's life, during a residence of several years among them." By John D. Hunter. In conformity to the act of the congress of the United States, intituled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned."-And also to the act, entitled, "An act supplementary to an act entitled,. "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times, therein mentioned," and extending the benefits there of the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.