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
The Doctor and Jim visit several churches--The Indians in St.
Paul's--In Westminster Abbey--The exhibition at the Hall--The
Doctor agrees to go in the carriage of the "jolly fat dame"--Mr.
Melody objects--The Doctor's melancholy--Indians stop the bus
to talk with Lascars--Make them presents of money--Indians
discover _chickabobboo-ags_ (gin-palaces)--and ladies lying
down in their carriages reading books--_Chim-e-gotch-ees_
(or fish)--Jim's story of "Fish"--Experiments in
mesmerism--Wash-ka-mon-ya (Jim) mesmerized--The Doctor's
opinions on mesmerism--Ioways in Lord's Cricket-ground--Archery
and ball-playing--Encampment--Wigwams--Indians invited by Mrs.
Lawrence to Ealing Park--Their kind reception--Their Royal
Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge--The Princess
Mary--The Duchess of Gloucester--The Hereditary Grand Duke and
Duchess, and other distinguished guests--Amusements--Beautiful
grounds--Indians dine on the lawn--Roast beef and
plum-pudding--_Chickabobboo_--Alarm of the parrots--Doctor's
superstition--_Chickabobboo_ explained--Speech of the
War-chief--Taking leave--Fright of the poor birds--Handsome
presents--Conservatory--The Doctor's ideas of it--Indians
visit Surrey Zoological Gardens--Fright of the birds and
animals--Indians sacrifice tobacco to the lion and the
rattle-snakes.
Mr. Melody, feeling the high importance of the charge of these
fourteen wild people intrusted to his hands by the Government while
they were to see the sights of a foreign country, and feeling the
strongest attachment to them personally, was stimulated to every
exertion by which he could properly open their eyes to the benefits
of civilization, and consequently was inquiring from day to day "what
shall be shown them next?"
I had also, with feelings of the highest respect for the chiefs of the
nation, knowing them to be of the party, enlisted my warmest exertions
in their behalf, and resolved to render them, in all ways I could, the
aid that was due from me for their hospitality which benefited me when
I was in their country.
With these views we continued our omnibus in driving them about
the City and country, and one or the other of us was almost daily
accompanying them to some institution or public works from which they
might derive some useful information. To these they generally went
together and in their native dresses, but there were others where
their costumes and their paint would render them too conspicuous,
and for such purposes two or three suits of clothes, beaver hats and
wigs, became necessary for such a number as wished at any time to look
further (and unobserved) into the arcana and hidden mysteries of the
great metropolis. And the reader will be ready to exclaim with me, that
the field before us was a vast and boundless one.
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