648 THE GEORGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 



"That rope there is the one in which Bardsley was hung, who killed hi3 own futhei, 



1 ' A bloody axe and poker, gentlemen. With that axe and poker an old woman killed 

 a little boy. She then drowned herself. She was not executed. 



" This shoe-knife, gentlemen, is one that Robert Noll lulled his wife with in Shef- 

 field. He was executed. 



"Another knife, with which Rogers killed a man in Sheffield. He ripped his bowels 

 out with it. He was hung. 



" A club, and stone, and hat, gentlemen. With this club and stone Blackburn was 

 murdered, and that was his hat; you see how it is all broken and bloody. This was done 

 by four men. All hung. 



"The hat and hammer here, gentlemen — these belonged to two robbers. One met 

 the other in a wood, and killed him with the hammer. He was hung. 



11 That scythe and pitchfork, you see, gentlemen " 



When our guide had thus far explained, and Jeffrey had translated to the Indians, I 

 observed the old doctor quite outside of the museum-room, and with his robe wrapped 

 close around him, casting his eyes around in all directions, and evidently in great un- 

 easiness. He called for the party to come out, for, said he, "I do not think this is a 

 good place for us to stay in any longer. ' ' We all thought it was as well, for the turnkey 

 had as yet not described one-third of his curiosities; so we thanked him for his kind- 

 ness, and took leave of him and his interesting museum. 



We were then conducted by the governor's request to the apartments of his family, 

 where he and his kind lady and daughters received the Indians and ourselves with much 

 kindness, having his table prepared with refreshments, and, much to the satisfaction of 

 the Indians — after their fatigue of body as well as of mind — with plenty of the Queen's 



chickabobboo. 



THE INDIANS' REFLECTIONS. 



The sight-seeing of this day and the exhibition at night finished our labors in the in- 

 teresting town of York, where I have often regretted we did not remain a little longer to 

 avail ourselves of the numerous and kind invitations which were extended to us before 

 we left. After our labors were all done, and the Indians had enjoyed their suppers and 

 their chickabobboo, we had a pipe together, and a sort of recapitulation of what we had 

 seen and heard since we arrived. The two most striking subjects of the gossip of this 

 evening were the cathedral and the prison; the one seemed to have filled their minds 

 with astonishment and admiration at the ingenuity and power of civilized man, and the 

 other with surprise and horror at his degradation and wickedness; and evidently with 

 some alarm for the safety of their persons in such a vicinity of vice as they had reason 

 to believe they were in from the evidences they had seen during the day. The poor old 

 doctor was so anxious for the next morning to dawn that we might be on our way that 

 he had become quite nervous and entirely contemplative and unsociable. They had 

 heard such a catalogue of murders and executions explained, though they knew that we 

 had but begun with the list, and saw so many incarcerated in the prison, some awaiting 

 their trial, others who had been convicted and were under sentence of death or trans- 

 portation, and others again pining in their cells and weeping for their wives and chil- 

 dren — merely because they could not pay the money that they owed— that they became 

 horrified and alarmed; and as it was the first place where they had seen an exhibition of 

 this kind, there was some reason for the poor fellows' opinions that they were in the 

 midst of the wickedest place in the world. 



THE DOCTOR'S ALARM. 



They said that, from the grandeur and great number of their churches, they thought 

 t^ey ought to be one of the most honest and harmless people they had been amongst, 

 but instead of that they were now convinced they must be the very worst, and the quicker 

 Mr. Melody made arrangements to be off the better. The Indians had been objects of 



