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and paint of their new friends."* Notwithstanding this 

 instance, we consider the practice of embracing as not ori- 

 ginal with the Indians in general, but probably in most 

 cases derived from the French. Indeed we have ourselves 

 heard the Indians ridicule the frequent kissing, which 

 they observed among the Canadians, and consider it as 

 unworthy of men. 



The Redwing chief is, at present, very much superan- 

 nuated, but he is still respected on account of his former 

 distinguished achievements. When Major Taliaferro, the 

 Indian agent, visited him, not long since, with Morga n 

 the principal war chief of the Sauks, the latter told Tatun- 

 kamane to his face, when shaking hands with him, that he 

 considered him as a very unimportant personage, and that 

 he only took him by the hand, out of respect to his father, 

 who had been, to them, so brave and active an enemy. 

 The Sauks will long remember the injury this chief did 

 them. Some of the warriors, whom we saw in the chief's 

 cabin, were very fine looking men. One of them, whose 

 face was covered over with charcoal, bore so strong a re- 

 semblance to the portraits of Napoleon, that all our party 

 were struck with it. It was rather to Bonaparte as first 

 consul, than as emperor, that the resemblance was great, 

 for he had not the corpulence which the ex-emperor had 

 acquired. Not only his features, but even the conforma- 

 tion of his head, shared in the general resemblance. We 

 could not learn that he was a distinguished man in the na- 

 tion. 



Among the many Indians whom we saw at the village, one 



* History of the Expedition under the command of Captains Lewis 

 and Clarke, Philadelphia, 1814, vol. 1, p. 363. 



