618 THE GEORGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 



limbs "at home again " in their light and easy native dresses. They were obliged, on 

 snch occasions (to be in keeping) to leave their long and ornamented pipes and toma- 

 hawks behind, and (not to lose the indispensable luxury of smoking) to carry a short and 

 handy civilized pipe, with their tobacco and a box of lucifers in their pocket. 



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As one of the first fruits of the new expedient (and while the subject was fresh and 

 revolving in the minds of all) there was now a chance of gratifying the doctor's desire 

 to see the modes and places of worship of some of the different denominations of religion, 

 of which he had heard so much, from Daniel and others, within the few days past. 

 These visits were their first attempts in their assumed characters, and were mostly made 

 in the company of Mr. Melody or Jeffrey, and without any amusing results either for 

 the congregations or the Ioways, save an incident or two such as must be expected in 

 the first experiments with all great enterprises. The doctor had been told that when 

 he entered the Protestant church he must take his hat off at the door, and had practised 

 it before he started; but, seeing such an immense number of ladies, he had unfortunately 

 forgot it, and being reminded of it when he had been placed in his seat, his wig came 

 off with it, exposing, but a moment, however, his scalp-lock and the top of his head, 

 where he had not deemed it necessary to wash off the red paint. 



DOCTOR AND JIM IN CHURCHES AND CHAPELS. 



In the Methodist chapel, where these two queer fellows had ventured one day with 

 Daniel, the sermon was long and tedious, and there was nothing observed curious ex- 

 cepting a blue smoke rolling up over the top of the pew, where the doctor's pipe had 

 been lit, and his head sunk down between his knees; and one other occurrence, that 

 afterwards happened in the heat of the exhortation from the pulpit, and much to the 

 amusement of the doctor and Jim, of a young woman in their immediate vicinity, who 

 began to groan, then to sing, and at length tumbled down from her seat upon the floor. 

 The doctor thought at first she was very sick, and wondered there was no physician there 

 to bleed her; but when Daniel told him what was the matter, the old man smiled, and 

 often talked about it afterward. 



I took the whole party through Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's, where they 

 stood and contemplated in amazement the works of human hands, so entirely beyond 

 their comprehension that they returned in reserved and silent contemplation. 



INDIANS IN HYDE PARK. 



I repaired one evening to the Indians' rooms in St. James street, where I found them 

 finishing their suppers. 



There were many subjects of an amusing nature talked over by these droll fellows 

 during the pipes of this evening, and one of the themes for their comments was the drive 

 which we had given them in two open carriages through Hyde Park at the fashionable 

 hour. They decided that "the park along the banks of the Serpentine reminded them 

 of the prairies on the shores of the Skunk and the Cedar Rivers in their own country; 

 and in fact that some parts of it were almost exactly the same." They were amused' 

 to see many of the ladies lying down as they rode in their carriages; and also that many 

 of the great chiefs pointed out to them riding on horseback "didn't know how to ride — 

 that they were obliged to have a man riding a little behind them to pick them up if 

 they should fall off." 



Jim, who was in unusual good humor this evening, either from the effects of his 

 chiclcabobboo or from some fine present he might have received in the room, seemed to be 

 the chief spokesman for the evening, and for the purpose of assisting his imagination or 

 aiding his voice had laid himself flat upon his back upon his robe, which was spread 

 upon the floor. His loquacity was such that there was little else for any of us to do 

 than sit still and excessively laugh at the dryness of his jokes and his amusing remarks 



