Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium; Vol. 1 (of 2): being Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe with his North American Indian CollectionCatlin, George
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Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium; Vol. 1 (of 2): being Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe with his North American Indian Collection
Catlin, George
England -- Description and travel; France -- Description and travel; Indians of North America
Rev. Mr. S---- and friend visit the Indians again--A day appointed
for a _talk_ about religion--Indians go to the Thames
Tunnel--Give the medicine-dance (wabeno) under it--Kind
treatment there, and _Chickabobboo_--The exhibition--Egyptian
Hall--Debate about the propriety of the Indians dancing
to make money--Great crowd--Woman screaming and lifted on
to the platform by Cadotte (afterwards called the "_jolly
fat_ dame")--She gives Cadotte a beautiful bracelet--Her
admiration of Cadotte--Evening gossip after their
exhibition--The amusements of the evening and sights of the
day--A clergyman asks an interview with the Indians and gets
offended--Exhibition rooms at night--Great crowd--The "jolly
fat dame" in full dress--She talks with Cadotte--Indians meet
the Rev. Mr. S---- and friend by appointment--Old Chief's
speech to them--Gish-ee-gosh-e-ghee's speech--Reverend
gentlemen thank them and take leave.
The morning after their first interview with the public at the Egyptian
Hall having been deemed a proper time for a visit to them, the Rev. Mr.
S---- and a friend called on me with a view to a further conversation
with them on the subject of religion, which had been postponed at
their request until after they had seen the Queen, which honour they
had now had. I spoke to the chiefs about it, and they said, "It is
very difficult now, for we have not time. Mr. Rankin has gone for the
carriage, and we are just going out to ride, but you can bring them in."
The old chief received them very kindly, and gave them seats, when the
Rev. Mr. S---- addressed them through the interpreter in the most kind
and winning manner. "My friends, I have been delighted to see by the
papers that your Great Mother the Queen has graciously received you
and made you some valuable presents; and I hope the time is come now
when your minds are at ease, and we can have some conversation on that
great and important subject that I proposed the other day."
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