Manuscripts, 1884.

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Manuscripts, 1884.

French's papers on Indian ethnology: "Among the Natchez, by a Mississippian;" "Push-Ma-Ta-Ha," concerns a distinguished chief of the Choctaws, who served under Andrew Jackson in the Seminole War; included also is his pseudo-scientific narrative, "Voyage Round the Moon."

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