Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium; Vol. 2 (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. 2 (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
Newcastle-on-Tyne--Indians' alarms about jails--Kind visits from
Friends--Mrs. A. Richardson--Advice of the Friends--War-Chiefs
reply--Liberal presents--Arrive at Sunderland--Kindness of
the Friends--All breakfast with Mr. T. Richardson--Indians
plant trees in his garden--And the Author also--The Doctor's
superstition--Sacrifice--Feast--Illness of the Roman
Nose--Indians visit a coalpit--North Shields--A sailors' dinner
and a row--Arrive at Edinburgh--A drive--First exhibition
there--Visit to Salisbury Crag--To Arthur's Seat--Holyrood
House and Castle--The crown of Robert Bruce--The "big
gun,"--"Queen Mab"--Curious modes of building--"Flats"--Origin
of--Illness of Corsair, the little _pappoose_--The old Doctor
speaks--War-chief's speech--A feast of ducks--Indians'
remarks upon the government of Scotland--"The swapping of
crowns"--The Doctor proposes the crown of Robert Bruce for
Prince Albert--Start for Dundee--Indians' liberality--A noble
act--Arrival at Dundee--Death of little Corsair--Distress of the
Little Wolf and his wife--Curious ceremony--Young men piercing
their arms--Indians at Perth--Arrival in Glasgow--Quartered in
the Town-hall--The cemetery--The Hunterian Museum--The Doctor's
admiration of it--Daily drives--Indians throw money to the
poor--Alarm for _Roman Nose_--Two reverend gentlemen talk with
the Indians--War-chief's remarks--Greenock--Doctor's regret at
leaving.
Newcastle-on-Tyne was the next place where we stopped, and when I
arrived there I found Mr. Melody and his friends very comfortably
lodged, and all in excellent spirits. The Indians, he told me, had been
exceedingly buoyant in spirits from the moment they left York, and the
old Doctor sang the whole way, even though he had been defeated in his
design of riding outside on the railway train, as he had been in the
habit of doing on the omnibus in London. I told them I had remained a
little behind them in York to enjoy a few hours more of the society of
an excellent and kind lady of the Society of Friends,[29] whom they
would recollect to have seen in the exhibition room when they had
finished their last night's exhibition, who came forward and shook
hands in the most affectionate manner, and left gold in their hands as
she bade them good bye, and commended them to the care of the Great
Spirit.
[29] Miss E. Fothergill.
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