638 THE GEORGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 



had been looking at every day since they came to London, bnt had never yet been able 

 quite to learn the meaning of," and also " the totems (arms, as they supposed) of great 

 chiefs, so beautifully painted and put out between their chamber windows." 



The Doctor said "he believed the white people had got this custom from the Indians, 

 as it was the habit of the great chiefs and warriors to put their totems over their wig- 

 wam doors, but when they did so they al ways put out scalps on certain days to show 

 what they had done. He had watched these totems in London as he had been riding, 

 in all sorts of weather, and as he had seen no scalps or anything hung out by the side of 

 them, he couldn't exactly see how all these people were entitled to them; still, it might 

 all be right." Daniel put the Doctor's inquiries all at rest on the subjectof totems and 

 the " one-horn fighters," by telling him that if he would wait a little, until Mr. Catlin 

 and Mr. Melody had gone, he would give him the whole history of white men's totems; 

 how they got them and the use they made of them; and he would also tell him all about 

 the "lion and the unicorn fighting for the crown," &c. 



INDIANS SEE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. 



The Doctor here made some comments on the great white war-chief (the Duke of 

 Wellington) who had been pointed out to them on horseback as they passed him in the 

 street, and his wigwam was also shown to them (i. e., to the Doctor and Jim as they sat 

 outside with the driver). He was disposed to learn something more of him, and Daniel 

 silenced him by saying, "Let that alone too for a while, and I will tell you all about 

 him." * * * 



Jim, as I have before said, was the only one of the party who seemed ambitious to 

 civilize; and as he was daily laboring to learn something of the English language, he 

 had this day conceived the importance of instituting a little book of entries in which he 

 could carry home to enlighten his people, something like a brief statistical account of 

 the marvelous things he was seeing, and was to see, among the white people. 



Daniel had at this moment finished entering into it the estimates of the brewery and 

 chickabobboOf which had opened their eyes wider, perhaps, than anything else they had 

 seen; and he had very wisely left a few blank pages in the beginning of the book for 

 other retrospective notes and estimates of things they had already seen since the day 

 they left home. Jim's journal was thus established, and he was, with Daniel's aid, to 

 become a sort of historian to the party; and, as the sequel will show, he became stimu- 

 lated thereby to greater exertions to see and to understand what was curious and inter- 

 esting, and to get estimates of the beauties and blessings of civilization to carry home. 

 He labored from that moment indefatigably, not to write or to read, but to speak; and 

 made rapid progress, as will be seen hereafter, having known, as he said, but two English 

 sentences when he came to England, which were, " How do do?" and " ." 



INDIANS GO TO VAUXHALL GARDENS FOR EXHIBITION— EGYPTIAN HALL CLOSED. 



In Vauxhall Gardens the Indians erected their four wigwams of buffalo hides, and in 

 darting into and about them during their various games and amusements, whilst the 

 blue smoke was curling out of their tops, presented one of the most complete and per- 

 fect illustrations of an Indian encampment that could possibly have been designed. It 

 was the thing itself, and the very men, women, and children living and acting on a sim- 

 ilar green turf as they do on the prairies of the Missouri. 



In the amusements as there given there was an addition to those which had been 

 made in Lord's cricket-ground some weeks before, having in Vauxhall brought horses 

 in to add, with equestrian exercises, to the completion of all the modes practiced by 

 this tribe. The Ioways, like most of the Indians of the prairies of America, subsist 

 upon the food of the buffalo, and kill them from their horses' backs with their bows 

 and arrows while running at full speed. In the same manner they meet their enemies 

 in battle, in which they carry their shield and lance. Thus fully equipped, with their 



