660 THE GEORGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 



might bo able to make his face look well among his friends where he was going. He 

 wished him, and Daniel also, to have his arrows examined in his quiver, and repaired 

 with new and sharp blades, as he recollected that, before he was sick, many of them 

 were injured by shooting at the target, and during his illness others might have been 

 destroyed. He had requested his silver medal, which was given to him by the Ameri- 

 can Government for saving the lives of ten of his defenseless enemies, to be suspended 

 by a blue ribbon over his head while he was sick, that he might see it until he died, 

 and in that position it hung when I was last with him, his eyes were upon it, and his 

 smile, until he drew his last breath. After his death his friend Bobasheela, and Jef- 

 frey and the Doctor, laid him in his coffin, and placing in it, according to the Indian 

 mode, his faithful bow and quiver of arrows, his pipe and tobacco to last him through 

 the "journey he was to perform," having dressed him in all his finest clothes, and 

 painted his face, and placed his bow and quiver and his pouch by his side, and his 

 medal on his breast, the coffin was closed, and his remains were buried, attended by 

 his faithful friends around him, by the officers of the institution, and many citizens, 

 who sympathized in his unlucky fate. 



Thus ended the career of No-ho-mun-ya (or the Roman Nose), one of the most peace- 

 able and well-disposed and finest men of the party, or of the tribe from which he came. 

 (No. 25S.) 



Mr. Catlin in Paris in 1845. 



Having long before resolved to take my collection to Paris before returning it to my 

 own country, and the Indians being ambitious to see the King of the French, it was 

 miituallj' agreed that mj^ whole collection should be opened in Paris, and that their 

 dances and other amusements should for a short time be given in it, as they had been 

 given in London. 



Under this arrangement, with my wife and my four dear little children, I repaired 

 to Paris as soon as possible, leaving Daniel to ship over and accompany my collection 

 whilst Mr. Melody conducted his party of Indians. 



In crossing the Channel, and receding from its shores, as I was seated on the deck 

 of a steamer, I looked back, and, having for the first time nothing else to do, and a 

 little time to reflect upon England, and what I had seen of it in five years, I took out 

 of my pocket my little note-book, where I had entered, not what England is, and 

 what she does (and which all the world knows), but the points in which her modes 

 are different from those in my country. I would have a few leisure hours to run over 

 these curious entries, and time to reflect upon them, as we sailed along, and I began 

 to read thus : 



"London, 1844. The essential differences ietween England and the United States. 



'' The United States much the largest ; but England is a great deal older. 



"New Yorkers cross the streets diagonally; the Londoners cross them at right an- 

 gles. 



" In England the odd pennies are wrapped in a paper^ and handed back with ' I 

 thank you, sir.' 



" Streets in London have tops and bottoms ; in America they have upper and lower 

 ends. 



"In England a man's wife is 'very bad;' in America 'very ill;' and in France 

 'bien malade.' 



" Americans ' turn to the right as the law directs; ' the English turn to the left. 



"English mutton and babies are much the fattest. 



" Gooseberries in England much the largest, but not so sweet. 



" Pigs in the American cities are seen promenading in the streets ; in London only 

 seen hanging by their hind legs. 



"In England men are ' knocked uj) ; ' In America they are ' knocked down.' 



"'Top-coats' are very frequent in England; in America nothing is known highei 

 than an 'overcoat.' 



