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My little bark has been soaked in the water again, and Ba'tiste and Bogard have 

 paddled, and I have steered and dodged our little craft amongst the snags and sawyers, 

 until at last we landed the humble little thing amongst the huge steamers and float- 

 ing palaces at the wharf of this bustling and growing city. 



And, first of all, I must relate the fate of my little boat, which had borne us safe 

 over 2,000 miles of the Missouri's turbid and boiling current, with no fault, excepting 

 two or three instances, when the waves became too saucy, she, like the best of boats 

 of her size, went to the bottom and left us soused, to paddle our way to the shore 

 and drag out our things and dry them in the sun. — G. C, Ibid. 



(See No. 311 for the fate of the canoe.) 



MR. CATLIN PAINTS BLACK HAWK AND COMPANIONS. 



At Saint Louis, in fall of 1832, Mr. Catlin painted Black Hawk and 

 his companions, then incarcerated at Jefferson Barracks, having been 

 captured at the end of the Sac and Fox war. Mr. Catlin was on the 

 Upper Missouri during the period of this war. (See Nos. 2, 4, 7, 8, 12, 

 10.) This ended his journeyings in the West in 1832. 



ITINERARY OF 1833. 



In the summer of 1833 I ascended the Platte to Fort Laramie, visiting the two prin- 

 cipal villages of the Pawnees, and also the Omabas and Ottoes, and at the fort saw 

 a great number of Arapahos and Cheyennes, and rode to the shores of the Great Salt 

 Lake, when the Mormons were yet building their temple at Nauvoo, on the Missis- 

 sippi thirty-eight years ago. 



Of Mr. Catlin's movements in 1833 no journal was printed. 



The Pawnee portraits are Nos. 55-61 and 99-111. The Ottoes are 

 Nos. 117-121, and the Omahas 112-116. The Cheyennes Kos. 143 and 144. 



Some of the portraits above enumerated, and landscapes, games, and 

 customs were undoubtedly painted during this year, but cannot be de- 

 signated, as several years' work are in the numbers given or referred to. 



ITINERARY OF 1834. 



MR. CATLIN'S JOURNEY WITH UNITED STATES DRAGOONS. 



In the spring of 1834 I obtained permission from Governor Cass (then Secretary of 

 War) to flccompany the First Regiment of Mounted Dragoons, under the command of 

 Colonel Dodge, to the Camanchees and other southwestern tribes. We saw in the 

 campaign of that summer all of the Camanchees, the Osages, the Pawnee Picts, the 

 Kiowas, and Wicos, and at the Kiowa village a large number of Arapahos ; and vis- 

 iting the Pawnee Picts, an encampment of Jiccarrilla Apacbes and Navahos ; and at 

 and near Fort Gibson, 1834, on the Arkansaw, the Cherokees, the Choctaws, and 

 Creeks, then recently removed from Georgia and Alabama, in 1836. 



From Fort Gibson, on my horse " Charley," in the fall of 1834, without a road or a 

 track, and alone, I rode to Saint Louis, a distance of 550 miles, guided by my pocket 

 compass, and swimming the rivers as I met them. [See No. 469 for test.] 



Hon. Lewis Cass, of Michigan, was Secretary of War, under Presi- 

 dent Jackson, in 1834. He was always friendly to Mr. Catlin, and gave 

 him a letter, addressed to Army officers on the frontier, asking courte- 

 sies and attentions. An expedition was fitting out at Fort Gibson to 

 visit the wild Indians along the Arkansas and Red Rivers. 



