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with marked disUnctiou. In 1852, when flfty-sixyears old, his enthusi- 

 asm undiminished by his advancing age, and with a vigor and endnrance 

 rarely found even in the young men of our day, he explored, with the 

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

 visited the Orouoco, Amazon, and Essequibo, taking a great nnmber of 

 pictures on his route. He afterward crossed the continent to Lima, 

 and going northward visited the mouth of the Columbia Eiver, 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 moontaius 

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

 Snake River, and returning to Portland j)roceeded to San Francisco 

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

 and the Rocky Mountains, and descended the Rio Grande del Korte in 

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

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

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

 Ascending the 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 MaraSaibo. In these six 

 years, completing his 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 jSTorth American Indians that of the Indians 

 of South America. He i-emained at Brussels until 'his return to thi" 

 country in 1871. 



During his life, and in periods of rest from his travels, he wrote and 

 published the following works : 



1. Catlin's litotes 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,) 1867. 



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

 Andes, 1867. 



7. Shut Your Mouth, 1869. 



8. Uplifted and Subsided Rocks of America, 1870. 



