The Author embarks at New York, with his Indian Collection, and cage with two grizly Bears, for England, in the fall of 1839--Packet-ship Roscius, Captain Collins--Gale in the middle of the ocean--A ship dismasted and in distress--The Captain and twenty-eight men taken off and saved--The shipwrecked Captain and his faithful dog--"My man Daniel"--Sailor's nose taken off by grizly bear--Dr. Madden--Terrible gale--Sea-sickness of the grizly bears--Alarm on deck--"Bears out of their cage"--Passengers rush below and close the hatches--A _supposed_ Bear enters the cabin!--Great excitement--The explanation--The gale subsides--Amusing mistake--The Author in the steerage--Two eccentric characters--Arrival in Liverpool. In the fall of the year 1839 I embarked at New York on board of the packet-ship Roscius, Captain Collins, for Liverpool, with my Indian collection; having received a very friendly letter of advice from the Hon. C. A. Murray, master of Her Majesty's household, who had formerly been a fellow-traveller with me on the Mississippi and other rivers in America; and who, on his return to London, had kindly made a conditional arrangement for my collection in the Egyptian Hall, in Piccadilly. Mr. George Adlard, an Englishman, residing in the city of New York, had also exerted a friendly influence for me in procuring an order from the Lords of Her Majesty's Treasury for passing my collection into the kingdom free from the customary duties; and under these auspices I was launched upon the wide ocean, with eight tons freight, consisting of 600 portraits and other paintings which I had made in my sojourn of eight years in the prairies and Rocky Mountains of America--several thousands of Indian articles, costumes, weapons, &c., with all of which I intended to convey to the English people an accurate account of the appearance and condition of the North American tribes of Indians.[1] On board also, as a part of my heavy collection, and as a further illustration of the rude inhabitants of the "_Far West_" I had, in a huge iron cage, two _grizly bears_, from the Rocky Mountains; forming not only the heaviest and most awkward part of my freight, but altogether the most troublesome, as will be seen hereafter.