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 261
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 278
CHAPTER XXIX.
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