576 THE GEORGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 



drollery and wit. The Strong Wind, the interpreter, whose^faniiliar name was "adotte, 

 was a half-caste, a young man of fiue personal app^ arance and address, and the son of 

 a Frenchman of that name who had long been an interpreter for the English factories 

 in those regions.— Pages 103-110, vol. 1, Catlin's Notes in Europe. 



The Indians remained at Manchester, Stockport, and other towns 

 for some two months. They were entertained at many private and 

 public places, and received many presents and much attention. 



INDIANS COMMENT ON MANCHESTER. 



After one day's inspection of Manchester, Mr. Catlin notes their com- 

 ments: 



The conversation of the Indians that evening, while they were passing their pipe 

 around and making their comments upon what they had seen, was exceedingly curious, 

 and deserves to be recorded. They expressed great satisfaction at the kind manner 

 in which they had been entertained by the mayor, understanding that he was the 

 headman of the town of Manchester — "chief of that village," as they called him ; 

 ''they saw him and his squaw, and many other beautiful squaws, all drinking ; and 

 they saw many people through the windows and in the doors, as they passed along 

 the streets, who were drinking ; and they saw several persons in the streets who were 

 quite drunk, and two or three lying down in the streets, like pigs ; and they thought 

 the people of Manchester loved much to drink liquor. They saw a great deal of 

 smoke, and thought the prairies were on fire; they saw many fine-looking squaws 

 walking in the streets, and some of them holding on to men's arms, and didn't look 

 sick, neither. They saw a great many large houses, which it seemed as if nobody 

 lived in. They saw a great many people in the streets, who appeared very poor, and 

 looked as if they had nothing to eat. They had seen many thousands, and almost all 

 looked so poor that they thought it would do no good for us to stay in Manchester/' 



I explained to them the extraordinary cause that had recently thrown so many 

 thousands of poor people into the streets; that Manchester was one of the richest 

 towns in the world ; that the immense houses they had seen, and apparently shut up, 

 were the great factories in which these thousands of poor people worked, but were 

 now stopped, and their working people were running about the streets in vast num- 

 bers ; that the immense crowd gathered around their hotel from day to day were of 

 that class ; that the wealthy people were very many, but that their dwellings were 

 mostly a little out of town ; and that their business men were principally shut up in 

 their offices and factories, attending to their business whilst the idle people were 

 running about the streets. 



Such was a little of the gossip after their first visit and drive about the town, and 

 the next morning, at an early hour, they were removed to their new lodgings in the 

 Exchange buildings, and the kind landlord effectually, though very gradually, re- 

 lieved from the nuisance he had had around his house for some days past. 



CASTS MADE FROM THE CHIPPEWAS AT MANCHESTER. 



I was waited on about this time by Mr. Bally, a gentleman of great eminence and 

 skill in the science of phrenology, and who has one of the richest collections of casts 

 from nature in the world. Mr. Bally is one of the most rapid and skillful men in the 

 operation of casting from the living face, and was extremely anxious to procure casts 

 from the Ojibbeways; and, to a gentleman of so much worth to science, as well as 

 for his amiable and gentle disposition, I felt bound to lend my best efforts in gaining 

 for him the privilege. 1 had much difficulty to overcome their superstitious ; but 

 by assuring them that they were to be done as a present to me, and by their seeing the 

 operation performed on one of my men, I succeeded in gaining their consent, and 

 they were all taken with great success. They were a present to my collection; and 



