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A narrative of what was seen and accomplished by the Contingent of North American Indian Voyageurs who led the British Boat Expedition for the Relief of KHARTOUM up the Cataracts of the NILE.

OUR CAUGHNAWAGAS IN EGYPT.

BY LOUIS JACKSON OF CAUGHNAWAGA.

CAPTAIN OF THE CONTINGENT,

Montreal: WM. DRYSDALE & CO., PUBLISHERS, BOOKSELLERS AND STATIONERS, 232 ST. JAMES STREET. 1885.

Entered according to Act of Parliament, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five

BY LOUIS JACKSON,

in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture and Statistics at Ottawa.

PREFACE

The Indians of Caughnawaga are an offshoot from the Mohawks, one of the divisions of the Six Nations, formerly in pseudo occupation of western New York, and known to the French by the general name of Iroquois. Long before the cession of this Province to Great Britain, they were settled at the head of the rapids of the St. Lawrence opposite Lachine, on a tract of land ten miles square, or 64,000 acres held in common, but lately separated into lots to be divided among the people as individual property.

There is something unique in the idea of the aborigines of the New World being sent for to teach the Egyptians how to pass the Cataracts of the Nile, which has been navigated in some way by them for thousands of years, that should make this little book attractive to all readers, especially as it is written by one born and bred in Caughnawaga, who, with the quick eye of an Indian, has noticed many things unnoticed by ordinary tourists and travellers.

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