"They _do_ get drunk sometimes, but white people sell them rum and make them so, therefore I don't think we ought to call them drunkards exactly." "The Indians all get married--some have a number of wives." "Yes, they seem as fond of their wives as any people I ever saw." "The Indians never injured Mr. Catlin in any way." "Mr. Catlin _didn't_ live on 'raw meat;' he was one time eighteen months with nothing but meat to eat, but it was well cooked." "The Indians know _nothing about salt_--they don't use it at all." "Reason! yes; why, do you think they are wild beasts? to be sure they reason as well as we do." "They _are_ thieves, sometimes; but I don't think they thieve so often as white people do." "The Indians _do_ lend their wives sometimes to white men, but it is only their old superannuated ones, who are put aside to hard labour, so it is a sort of kindness all around, and I don't see that there is much harm in it." "The Indians all have their religion, they all worship the Great Spirit." "They are _treacherous_, to be sure, towards their enemies only, and I'll be whipped if the white people an't just as bad." "The Indians _are cruel_, there's no mistake about that; but it is only to their enemies." "Sale? there _won't be_ any sale; Mr. Catlin don't intend to sell his collection in this country." "Mr. Catlin _is not_ an Indian." "No, he has _no_ Indian blood in him." "Mr. Catlin speaks the English language very well." "The Indians _don't raise_ tea." "They _never eat_ the scalps." "The Indians that Mr. Catlin saw are not _near_ Chusan, they are 3,000 miles from there, they are in America." "You _can't come overland_ from America." "A scalping-knife is _any_ large knife that an Indian takes a scalp with." "A prairie is a meadow." "The Indians speak _their own_ language." "A pappoose is an Indian baby while it is carried in the cradle." "A prairie bluff is a hill that is covered with grass." "The Rocky Mountains are in _America_, between New York and the Pacific Ocean, and _not_ in the _Indies_ at all." "A snag is a large tree that is lying in the river, its roots fast in the mud at the bottom, and its trunk at the top, pointing down the stream." "Sawyers _are not_ alligators." "An alligator is a sort of crocodile." "The Chesapeake didn't take the Shannon, it was the Shannon that took the Chesapeake." "The Americans are _white_, the same colour exactly as the English, and speak the same language, only they speak it a great deal better, in general." "A stump is the but-end and roots of a tree standing in the ground after the tree is chopped down." "It _is_ true that all Indian women stay away from their husbands the seven days of their illness, and I think they are the decentest people of the two for doing it." "A squaw is an _Indian woman_ who is married." "The _Calumet_ is a pipe of peace."