THE GEORGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 163 



chopped the little pile, which he also carried to the door to be sure that it was ready 

 for the morcing service, saying that he came so late into the vineyard, he must work 

 diligently in order to accomplish anything before he was called away."* His man- 

 ners were peculiarly suave and refined. His hospitality and benevolence were pro- 

 verbial. He died in 1835 and was buried at East Buffalo in the old mission cemetery,. 



CAPTAIN OR COLONEL POLLARD. 



Captain Pollard Ga-on-do-wau-ua (Big Tree), a Seneca sachem of the first class, was- 

 a contemporary of Red Jacket, and only second to him as an orator. In moral attri- 

 butes he was the superior of Red Jacket, being literally a man without guile, and dis- 

 tinguished for his benevolence and wisdom. In youth he was an ambitious warrior, 

 and made himself conspicuous in the many forays against the border settlements by 

 the British and Indians during the Revolutionary war. He participated in the affair 

 at Wyoming. He was one of the earliest fruits of missionary labors at Buffalo Creek, 

 and after his conversion to Christianity always spoke with abhorrence and deep con- 

 trition of the events of his warrior days, and he afterwards led a blameless and benefi- 

 cent life. 



Pollard was a half-breed, his father being an English Indian trader, whose head- 

 quarters appear to have been at Fort Niagara, and his mother a Seneca woman. The 

 celebrated Catharine Montour (Queen Catharine) became his step-mother and bore to 

 his father three sons, all of whom were renowned in the border warfare of those 

 troublous times. 



Pollard was formally selected by the Indians as their leader, or war captain, at the 

 commencement of the war of 1812, and was an able and valiant ally of our forces 

 during the entire struggle. He was a man of commanding presence, of dignified and 

 benevolent aspect, showing but little traces of his Indian lineage. He died at an 

 advanced age on the 10th day of April, 1841, and was buried in the old mission cem- 

 etery. He left no descendants. His wife, Catharine, who survived him several years, 

 was buried by his side, together with the last of his family, a little granddaughter. 

 The three sleep together in the new Indian burial lot at Forest Lawn. Ketchara 

 ("Buffalo and the Senecas"), who knew him personally, says that "after the death 

 of Farmer's Brother the most considerable of the chiefs of the Senecas was Captain 

 Pollard, or Kaoundowana." 



Colonel Stone ("Life and Times of Red Jacket," page 373) says: "Captain Pol- 

 lard, or Ka-oun-do-wa-no, is yet living (1841), a venerable looking old man, with a 

 finely developed head, which would form a noble subject of study for Dr. Combe." 



LITTLE BILLY. 



Little Billy, Jish-ge-ge, or Katy-did (an insect), is always mentioned in contempo- 

 rary records as "The War Chief." He died at the Seneca village, Buff"alo Creek, De- 

 cember 28, 1834, a very aged man. There is a tradition extant which asserts that he 

 was one of the Indian guides who accompanied the youthful Washington on his mem- 

 orable mission to Fort Duquesne during the old French and Indian war.t The few 

 aged Senecas who remember him affirm that he was a man of marked integrity and 

 of irreproachable habits. Only the most meager materials for his biography remain, 

 although his name is appended to many treaties and occurs in the " Life and Times 

 of Red Jacket" and other writings relating to the Indians. The same remark is 

 equally applicable to the two chiefs next mentioned. 



DESTROY-TOWN. 



Dcstroy-Town, Go-non-da-gie, " He destroys the town" (more accurately, 0-sh.ah- 

 go-nou-da-gie), was a leading councilor in his nation, a brave warrior, a man noted 



*Mi98 Johnson's " Iroquois," pa.2;e 218. See also Letchwoitb's " History of the Pratt Family." 

 t WashLuf:ton, in his narrative of that expedition, mentions a Seneca chief named Jcska-ka-ke, evi- 

 dently another fomi of spelUng Litrle Billy's ludiau name. 



