700 ■ THE GEORGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 



I descended the Yucayali in a ]3irogue to Nauta, crossed the mouutaius by the mail 

 route to Lima, steamed to Panama, to St. Diego, and San Francisco, and took a sail- 

 ing vessel to the month of Columbia, to Nootka Sound, Queen Charlotte's Inlet and 

 Island, to Liska, in the Aleutian Islands, to Kamskatka, to Sitka, back to Queen 

 Charlotte's, and to Victoria, seeing Indians — Klahoquats, Hydas, Nayas, Chippew- 

 yans, Stone, Dogrib, Athapascas, Esquimaux, Aleutians, and the Koriaks about 

 Petropolovski, in Kamskatka. 



From Victoria I went to The Dalles on the Columbia, to Walla Walla, and on horse- 

 back to the Salmon River Valley; crossed the Salmon River Mountains into the Snake 

 River Valley at Fort Hall ; made a visit to the Great (or " Smoky") Falls of the Snake 

 River ; made many sketches ; and returned to Walla Walla, to Portland, and thence 

 by steamer to San Francisco and St. Diego, having seen Indians — Paunch (a band of 

 Crows), Walla Wallas, Snakes, and Flatheadsin many bands. 



From St. Diego, on horseback, crossing the Colorado of the West at La Paz, and 

 Rocky Mountains to St. Diego on the Rio Grande del Norte, and from that point, in 

 a "dugout," steering with my own paddle, descended that river to El Paso, and to 

 Matamoras, eight hundred miles, seeing Indians — Cochemtees, Mohaves, Yumas, 

 Yumayas, and several bands of the Apachees. 



In 18.55, from Matamoras I sailed for Sisal, in Yucatan ; visited the ruins of Uxmal, 

 painted Indians — Mayas ; sailed from Sisal to Havre, went to Paris, and to Berlin, to 

 see my old friend the Baron de Humboldt, then in his eighty-seventh year, who pre- 

 sented me to the King and Queen at " Sans Souci," and gave me a letter of introduc- 

 tion to Baron Bonpland in Sautana, in Uruguay, to which place I was preparing to 

 start in a few days. 



I took steamer at Havre in the fall of 1855 for Rio del Janeiro and Buenos Ayres ; 

 from Buenos Ayres b> steamer, up the Paraguay to the mouth of the Parana, as- 

 cended the Parana on a trading boat seven hundred miles, and crossed the "Eutre 

 Rios " Mountains to Conception, on the headwaters of the Uruguay, and descended 

 that river seven hundred miles, in a pirogue, to the mouth of the Rio Negro, steer- 

 ing with my own paddle, and thence to Buenos Ayres, seeing Indians — Chaymas^ Cha- 

 cos, Paj'"aguas, Botocudos, and Tobos, and, in a ride to the Rio Salada and the " Grand 

 Saline," saw the Aucas and Puelches. 



From Buenos Ayres, in 1856, by a sailing packet, I coasted the whole length of 

 Patagonia, and passed through the Strait of Magellan, seeing Indians — an encamp- 

 ment of Patagons and Fuegians ; sailed to Panama ; by rail went to Chagres, and 

 thence to Carraccas, in Venezuela, a second time, and to Santa Martha and the lake 

 and mountains of Maricaybo, to witness the eifects of the cataclysm of the Antilles 

 where the Andes chain was broken, and of which some account (as well as some of 

 my last rambles of three years to see rocks, not Indians) will be seen in my little book 

 "Lifted and Subsided Rocks of America." 



(Mr. Catiin returned to Europe in 1858.) ' • 



Mr. Catlin at Brussels, New York, and Washington, 1860-1872. 



Mr. Catlin returned to Brussels in 1860, where he remained painting 

 his cartoon collection until 1870, when he returned to the United States, 

 opening his gallery of i)aintings at- the Sommerville Gallery, New York, 

 closing it in the fall of that year and removing it to the Smithsonian 

 Institution at \Vashingtou, where it was exhibited in 1871-'72, and taken 

 down and repacked after Mr. Catlin's death, in December, 1872. 



