For these tableaux I had chosen my men for some striking Indian character in their faces or figures, or action, and my women were personated by round-faced boys, who, when the women's dresses were on them, and long wigs of horses' hair spreading over their shoulders, and the faces and hands of all painted to the Indian colour, made the most complete illusion that could be conceived. I had furnished each with his little toilet of colours, &c., and instructions how to paint the face before a mirror, and how to arrange their dresses; and then, with almost infinite labour, had drilled them through the Indian mode of walking with their "toes in," of using their weapons of war and the chase, and of giving their various dances, songs, and the war-whoop; and I have no hesitation in saying, that when I had brought this difficult mode to its greatest perfection, I had succeeded in presenting the most faithful and general representation of Indian life that was ever brought before the civilized world. Many of these scenes were enlivened by action, and by the various instruments of music used by the Indians, added to their songs, and the war-whoop, giving a thrilling spirit to them, whilst they furnished scenes for the painter, of the most picturesque character, as will be easily imagined from the subjoined programme of them as announced at the time. CATLIN'S LECTURES WITH _TABLEAUX VIVANS_ ON THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, AT THE EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY, LONDON. PROGRAMME FOR THE FIRST EVENING. WAR SCENES. No. 1.--_Group of Warriors and Braves, in Full Dress_, reclining around a fire, regaling themselves with the pipe and a dish of _pemican_. In the midst of their banquet the chief enters in full dress; the pipe is lighted for him--he smokes it in sadness, and breaks up the party by announcing that an enemy is at hand--that a number of their men have been scalped whilst hunting the buffalo, and they must prepare for war. No. 2.--_Warriors Enlisting_, by "smoking through the reddened stem." The chief sends "_runners_" (or _criers_) through the tribe with a pipe, the stem of which is painted red; the crier solicits for recruits, and every young man who consents to smoke through the reddened stem which is extended to him, is considered a volunteer to go to war. No. 3.--_War Dance._ The ceremony of "_swearing in_" the warriors, who take the most solemn oath by dancing to, and striking the "reddened post" with their war-clubs. No. 4.--_Foot War-Party on the March_, ("Indian file,") armed with shields, bows, quivers, and lances--the chief of the party, as is generally the case, going to war in full dress.