650 THE GEORGE CAtLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 



much, and was amusement for Daniel; but at the same time I was decidedly regietting 

 with Mr. Melody that his good fellows, the Indians, in their visit to York, should have 

 got their eyes open to so much of the dark side of civilization, which it might have been 

 better for them that they never had seen. 



CKIMIIsrAL STATISTICS. 



Jim's book was now becoming daily a subject of more and more excitement to him, 

 and consequently of jealousy amongst some of the party, and particularly so with the 

 old Doctor; as Jim was getting more rapidly educated than either of the others, and his 

 book so far advanced as to discourage the Doctor from any essay of the kind himself. 

 Jim that night regretted only one thing which he had neglected to do, and which it was 

 now too late to accomplish — that was, to have measured the length of the cathedral and 

 ascertained the number of steps required to walk around it. He had counted the num- 

 ber of steps to the top of the grand tower, and had intended to have measured the cathe- 

 dral's length. I had procured some very beautiful engravings of it, however, one of 

 which Daniel arranged in his book, and the length of the building and its height we 

 easily found for him in the pocket guide. 



The Doctor, watching with a jealous eye these numerous estimates going into Jim's 

 book, to be referred to (and of course sworn to) when he got home, and probably on 

 various occasions long before, and having learned enough of arithmetic to understand 

 what a wonderful effect a cipher has when placed on the right of a number of figures, he 

 smiled from day to day with a wicked intent on Jim's records, which, if they went back 

 to his tribe in anything like a credible form, would be a direct infringement upon his 

 peculiar department, and materially affect his standing, inasmuch as Jim laid no claims 

 to a knowledge of medicine, or to anything more than good eating and drinking, before 

 he left home. 



However, the Doctor at this time could only meditate and smile, as his stiff hand re- 

 quired some practice with the pen before he could make those little O's so as to match 

 with others in the book, which was often left carelessly lying about upon their table. 

 This intent was entirely and originally wicked on the part of the old Doctor, because he 

 had not yet, that any one knew of, made any reference to his measure of the giant wo- 

 man, since he had carefully rolled up his cord and put it away amongst his other esti- 

 mates, to be taken home to ' ' astonish the natives ' ' on their return. 



THE INDIANS EN EOUTE TO EDINBUEGH. 



At Edinburgh they were cordially received, remaining but a short 

 time. "Eoman Nose," who had been taken ill at North Shields, and 

 the papoose "Corsair," child of Little Wolf, became ill at Edinburgh, 

 and died at Dundee. He was called "Corsair" from the name of the 

 steamboat on which he was born, on the Ohio Eiver, while they were 

 en route east, in 1844. The child was burried at Newcastle-on-Tyne. 

 Mr. Catlin describes the ceremonies at Dundee as follows : 



After they had laid the remains of the child iu the coffin, each of the young men of 

 the party ran a knife through the fleshy part of his left arm, and, drawing a white 

 feather through the wound, deposited the feather with the blood on it in the coflSn 

 with the body. This done, the father and mother brought all they possessed, ex- 

 cepting the clothes which they had on, and presented them, according to the cus- 

 tom of their country, and also all the fine presents they had received, their money, 

 trinkets, weapons, &c. This is one of the curious modes of that tribe, and is con- 

 sidered necessary to be conformed to in all cases where a child dies. The parents are 

 bound to give away all they possess in the world. I believe, however, that it is un- 

 derstood that, after a certain time, these goods are returned, and oftentimes with in- 

 creased treasures attending them. 



