Transcriber's Note:
Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document havebeen preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
Italics in the footnote citations were inconsistently applied bythe typesetter.
Footnote 1-1 has an un-opened quote ending "a very slow current."
Footnote I-219: Landnama should possibly be Landnáma.
Page 357: Words are possibly missing in the sentence starting, "Wehave no further details".
Many index entries could not be found in the text. Many index cross-referencescould not be found. A complete list of the latter can befound at the end of this volume.
Alphabetization errors in the index were not corrected.
This volume contains extensive references to the previous four volumes of this work.They can be found at:
THE WORKS
OF
HUBERT HOWE BANCROFT.
VOLUME V.
SAN FRANCISCO:
A. L. BANCROFT & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS.
1883.
Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1882, by
HUBERT H. BANCROFT.
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
All Rights Reserved.
This volume concludes the Native Races of thePacific States. During the year in which it hasbeen going through the press, I have received lettersof encouragement from the most eminent scholars ofEurope and America, and flattering commendationsfrom learned societies. None but an author canknow the value of such cheering words. This, myfirst attempt, was made in a new field; the scope ofthe work was very extensive; the system and machineryby which alone it could be accomplished wereuntried; and the subject was not one of great popularinterest. It was not, therefore, without misgivingsthat I sent it forth.
That the work had been so planned as to embodypractically all information extant on what I hadcome to regard as an important subject, and that theplan had been faithfully executed, I thoroughly believed.But that others would, to any great extent,share my opinion; that the subject would interestso many classes of readers; that mine would be soquickly and cordially recognized by men of scienceand letters throughout the world as a work worthdoing and well done; and that it would be at once[vi]accorded a place in literature, I had not dared tohope. The leading journals of England, France,Germany, and the United States, have deemed thevolumes as issued worthy of