Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians

719 Pages·2001·3.593 MB·English

by  George Catlin

ADVENTURES OF THE OJIBBEWAY
AND IOWAY INDIANS
VOLUME I

ADVENTURES
OF THE
OJIBBEWAY AND IOWAY INDIANS
IN
ENGLAND, FRANCE, AND BELGIUM;
BEING NOTES OF
EIGHT YEARS’ TRAVELS AND RESIDENCE IN EUROPE
WITH HIS
NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN COLLECTION,
BY GEO. CATLIN.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
With Numerous Engravings
THIRD EDITION.
LONDON:
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR,
AT HIS INDIAN COLLECTION, NO. 6, WATERLOO PLACE.
1852.

ADVENTURES OF THE
OJIBBEWAY AND IOWAY INDIANS
VOLUME I
By Geo. Catlin
As Published in 1852
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P R E F A C E .
THE reader of this book, being supposed to have read
my former work, in two volumes, and to have got
some account from them, of the eight years of my life
spent amongst the wild Indians of the “Far West,” in
the forests of America, knows enough of me by this time
to begin familiarly upon the subject before us, and to
accompany me through a brief summary of the scenes
of eight years spent amidst the civilization and refine-
ments of the “Far East.” After having made an
exhibition of my Indian Collection for a short time, in
the cities of New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, in
the United States, I crossed the Atlantic with it—not
with the fear of losing my scalp, which I sometimes
entertained when entering the Indian wilderness—and
entirely without the expectation of meeting with ex-
citements or novelties enough to induce me to commit
the sin of writing another book; and the thought of
doing it would never have entered my head, had not
another of those untoward accidents, which have di-
rected nearly all the important moves of my life, placed
in my possession the materials for the following pages,
which I have thought too curious to be withheld
from the world.