Transcriber’s Note
Some compound words appeared both with and without a hyphen. They aregiven as printed. Where a word is hyphenated on a line break, thehyphen is retained if the preponderance of other appearances indicateit was intended.
The few footnotes are repositioned at the end the text, and have beenre-numbered consecutively (1-12).
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CATLIN’S NOTES
OF
EIGHT YEARS’ TRAVELS AND RESIDENCE
IN EUROPE
WITH HIS
NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN COLLECTION.
VOLUME I.
ADVENTURES
OF THE
OJIBBEWAY AND IOWAY INDIANS
IN
ENGLAND, FRANCE, AND BELGIUM;
BEING NOTES OF
EIGHT YEARS’ TRAVELS AND RESIDENCE IN EUROPE
WITH HIS
NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN COLLECTION,
BY GEO. CATLIN.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
With numerous Engravings.
THIRD EDITION.
LONDON:
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR,
AT HIS INDIAN COLLECTION, NO. 6, WATERLOO PLACE.
1852.
PREFACE.
The reader of this book, being supposed to have read my former work,in two volumes, and to have got some account from them, of theeight years of my life spent amongst the wild Indians of the “FarWest,” in the forests of America, knows enough of me by this timeto begin familiarly upon the subject before us, and to accompany methrough a brief summary of the scenes of eight years spent amidst thecivilization and refinements of the “Far East.” After having made anexhibition of my Indian Collection for a short time, in the cities ofNew York, Boston, and Philadelphia, in the United States, I crossedthe Atlantic with it—not with the fear of losing my scalp, which Isometimes entertained when entering the Indian wilderness—and entirelywithout the expectation of meeting with excitements or novelties enoughto induce me to commit the sin of writing another book; and the thoughtof doing it would never have entered my head, had not another of thoseuntoward accidents, which have directed nearly all the important movesof my life, placed in my possession the materials for the followingpages, which I have thought too curious to be withheld from the world.
After I had been more than four years in England, making an exhibitionof my collection, and endeavouring, by my lectures in various partsof the kingdom, to inform the English people of the true characterand condition of the North American Indians, and to awaken a propersympathy for them, three different parties of Indians made theirappearance, at different dates, in Engla