DIED--On the 28th inst., No. 11 _bis_, Avenue Lord Byron, Paris, Mrs. Clara B. Catlin, the wife of the eminent traveller so distinguished for his researches into Indian history and antiquities of America, and so universally known and respected in Europe and his native country, Geo. Catlin, Esq., from the United States of America. The devoted friends who watched the last moments of this most amiable, interesting woman with intense anxiety, still clung to a faint hope, deceived by a moral energy never surpassed, and the most unruffled serenity of temper, that (had it been the will of Heaven) they might have been permitted to rescue a life so precious--but, alas! this gentle, affectionate, intellectual being was destined never more to revisit the land of her birth, and all that was earthly of so much worth and loveliness has passed away, whilst the immortal spirit has ascended to its kindred skies! "None knew her, but to love her; None named her, but to praise." _Galignani's Messenger, 30th July, 1845._ The reader can imagine something of the gloom that was cast over my house and little family, thus suddenly closed for ever from the smiles and cheer of an affectionate wife and a devoted mother, whose remains were sent back to her native land--not to greet and bring joy to her kindred and anxious friends, from whom she had been five years absent, but to afford them the last glance at her loved features, then to take their place amongst the ranks of the peaceful dead. CHAPTER XXVIII. Eleven Ojibbeway Indians arrive from London--Their exhibitions in the Author's Collection--Portraits and description of--Their amusements--Their pledge to sobriety--_Chickabobboo_ explained to them--Birth of a _Pappoose_--M. Gudin--Indians and the Author dine with him--His kind lady--The Author breakfasts with the Royal Family in the palace at St. Cloud--Two Kings and two Queens at the table--The Author presented to the King and Queen of the Belgians by Louis Philippe, in the salon--Count de Paris--Duc de Brabant--Recollects the Indian pipe and mocassins presented to him by the Author in the Egyptian Hall--Duchess of Orleans--The Princess Adelaide--The King relates anecdotes of his life in America--Washington's farewell address--Losing his dog in the Seneca village--Crossing Buffalo Creek--Descending the Tioga and Susquehana rivers in an Indian canoe, to Wyoming, the Author's native valley--The King desires the Author to arrange his whole Collection in the Louvre for the private views of the Royal Family--He also appoints a day to see the Ojibbeways in the Park, at St. Cloud--Great rejoicing of the Indians--A _dog-feast_--The Indians and the Author dine a second time at M. Gudin's.