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
_La Morgue_--The Catacombs--The Doctor's dream--Their great
alarm--Visit to the _Hippodrome_--Jim riding M. Franconi's
horse--Indians in the Woods of Boulogne--Fright of the
rabbits--Jim and the Doctor at the _Bal Mabille_, Champs
Elysées--At the _Masquerade, Grand Opera_--Their opinions
and criticisms on them--Frenchwomen at confession in St.
Roch--Doctor's ideas of it--Jim's speech--"_Industrious
fleas_"--Death of the wife of Little Wolf--Her
baptism--Husband's distress--Her funeral in the Madeleine--Her
burial in Montmartre--Council held--Indians resolve to return
to America--Preparations to depart in a few days--_Bobasheela_
goes to London to ship their boxes to New York--He returns,
and accompanies the Indians to Havre--Indians take leave of
_Chippehola_ (the Author)--M. Vattemare accompanies them to
Havre--Kindly treated by Mr. Winslow, an American gentleman, at
Havre--A splendid dinner, and _(Queen's) Chickabobboo_--Indians
embark--Taking leave of _Bobasheela_--Illness of the Author's
lady--His alarm and distress--Her death--Obituary--Her remains
embalmed and sent to New York.
After their exhibition was over, and they had taken their dinner
and _chickabobboo_ (at the former of which they had had the company
of their old friend _Bobasheela_), their pipe was lit, and the
conversation resumed about the French ladies, for whom Jim's dislike
was daily increasing, and with his dislike, his slanderous propensity.
He could not divest his mind of the 9000 illegitimate and abandoned
little babies that he had seen, and the affection for dogs, which,
instead of _exposing_, they secure with ribbons, and hold one end in
their hands, or tie it to their apron-strings. This was a subject so
glaring to Jim's imagination, that he was quite fluent upon it at
a moment's warning, even when standing up or sitting, without the
necessity of resorting to his usual and eccentric attitude. This
facility caused him to be more lavish of his abuse, and at every
interview in the rooms he seemed to be constantly frowning upon the
ladies, and studying some new cause for abusing them, and drawing Mr.
Melody and the Doctor into debates when they got back to their own
apartments. Such was the nature of the debate he had just been waging,
and which he had ended in his usual way, with the last word to himself,
"I no care; me no like em."
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