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with marked disUnctiou. lu 1852, when fifty-six years old, bis enthusi- 

 asm uiidiminisbed by bis advancing age, and with a vigor and endurance 

 rarely found even iu the young men of our day, be explored, with tbe 

 same object, the forests of Soutli America. He went to Venezuela, and 

 visited tbe Oronoco, Amazon, and Essequibo, taking a great number of 

 pictures on bis route. He afterward crossed tbe continent to Lima, 

 and going northward visited the mouth of tbe Columbia River, Nootka 

 Sound, Alaska, and to The Dalles, and up the Columbia River to Walla- 

 Walla, thence up to the Salmon River Valley, and across the mountains 

 into Snake River Valley at Fort Hall, thence to tbe Great Falls of tbe 

 Snake River, and returning to Portland proceeded to San Francisco 

 and San Diego. From San Diego he crossed tbe Colorado of the West 

 and tbe Rocky Mountains, and descended the Rio Grande del oSJ^orte in 

 a canoe to Matamoras. From Matamoras be set out for Sisal, in Yucatan , 

 and thence proceeded to Havre. Starting again from that place in the 

 fall of the same year, 1855, be went to Rio Janeiro and Buenos Ayres. 

 Ascending tbe Paraguay and Parana, he crossed the Entre Rios 

 Mountains to the head-waters of the Uruguay, which he descended to 

 the mouth of the Rio Negro and returned to Buenos Ayres. From this 

 place, in 1856, he took passage in a sailing-vessel coasting the whole 

 length of Patagonia, and then north to Panama; thence to Chagres, to 

 Caracas in Venezuela, to Santa Martha and Maracaibo. In these six 

 years, completing bis Indian studies, he retired to Brussels, and, with 

 pen and brush, again set himself to recording the results of his travels, 

 adding to his history of the Korth American Indians that of the Indians 

 of South America. He remained at Brussels until his return to tbi" 

 country in 1871. 



During bis life, and in j)eriods of rest from bis travels, he wrote and 

 published tbe following works : 



1. Catlin's Notes of Eight Years' Travels among the North American 

 Indians, 2 vols., 1851. 



2. Catlin's Notes of Eight Years' Residence in Europe, 2 vols, 1848. 



3. Catlin's North American Portfolio, 1844. 



4. Okee-pa, a Religious ''Mandan" Ceremony. 



5. Life among the Indians, (book for youth,) 18G7. 



6. Last Rambles among the Indians of the Rocky Mountains and 

 Andes, 1807. 



7. Shut Your Mouth, 1869. 



• 8. Uplifted and Subsided Rocks of America, 1870. 



