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would be found immense herds of buffaloes ; a place where we could get enough, to eat, 

 and, by lying by awhile, could restore the sick, who are now occupying a great num- 

 ber of litters.— Pages 70-72, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years. 



344. View on the Canadian, in Texas. Painted in 1834, while with the First United 



States Dragoons. (No plate.) 



345. View of the junction of Red River with the False "Washita, in Texas. 



Painted in 1834, while with the First United States Dragoons. (No plate.) 



346. Camanche (Comanche) village, in Texas, showing a spur of the Rocky Mount- 



ains in the distance ; lodges made of buffalo-skins; women dressing robes 

 and drying meat. Painted in 1834, while with the First United States 

 Dragoons. 



(Plate No. 164, page 64, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years). 



The village of the Camanchees, by the side of which we are encamped, is com- 

 posed of six or eight hundred skin-covered lodges, made of poles and buffalo-skins, 

 in the manner precisely as those of the Sioux and other Missouri tribes, of whom I 

 have heretofore given some account. This village, with its thousands of wild inmates, 

 with horses and dogs, and wild sports and domestic occupations, presents a most 

 curious scene, and the manners and looks of the people a rich subject for the brush 

 and the pen. 



In the view I have made of it (No. 346) but a small portion of the village is shown, 

 which is as well as to show the whole of it ; inasmuch as the wigwams as well as the 

 customs are the same in every part of it. In the foreground is seen the wigwam of 

 the chief; and in various parts crotches and poles, on which the women are drying 

 meat, and graining buffalo robes. 



These people, living in a country where buffaloes are abundant, make their wig- 

 wams more easily of their skins than of anything else; and with them find greater 

 facilities of moving about, as circumstances often require, when they drag them upon 

 the poles attaehed to their horses, and erect them again with little trouble in their 

 new residence.— G. C. 



347. View on the Wisconsin; Wiunebagoes shooting ducks in bark canoe. 



Painted in 1836. (No plate.) (See also No. 314.) 



348. Lac du Cygne (Swan Lake), near the C6teau des Prairies. A famous place, 



where myriads of white swans lay their eggs and hatch their young. 

 Painted in 1836. 



(Plate No. 276, page 217, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years.) ' 

 After having glutted our curiosity at the fountain of the red pipe, our horses 

 brought us to the base of the Coteau, and then over the extended plain that lies be- 

 tween that and the Traverse des Sioux, on the Saint Peter's with about five days' travel. 

 In this distance we passed some of the loveliest prairie country in the world, and 

 I made a number of sketches. Laque du Cygne, Swan Lake, was a peculiar and 

 lovely scene, extending for many miles, and filled with innumerable small islands 

 covered with a profusion of rich forest trees. — G. C. 



349. Beautiful savanna, in the pine woods of Florida. One of thousands of small 



lakes which have been gradually filled in with vegetation. Painted in the 

 spring of 1836. 



(Plate No. 147, page 34, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years.) 



From Pensacola, West Florida. — From my long silence of late you will no doubt 

 have deemed me out of the civilized, and, perhaps, out of the whole world. 



I have, to be sure, been a great deal of the time out of the limits of one and, at 

 times, nearly out of the other. Yet I am living, and hold in my possession a number 



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