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try with their money to relieve them ; and in that way I fully believe that they gave 

 a very considerable proportion of the money they had received since they entered the 

 city. 



LEAVE DUBLIN AND REACH LIVERPOOL. 



Our voyage across the channel was easy and pleasant ; and amongst the numerous 

 and fashionable people on board, poor Jim had the mortification of trying to test the 

 intrinsic value of his numerous stock of Bibles by occasionally offering one that he 

 carried in his pouch. "I no sell 'em; the they no like 'em ;" was his reply again, and 

 he began to doubt the value of them, which he was greatly disappointed to find they 

 had fixed much above their market price. 



ARRIVAL AT LIVERPOOL. 



On landing at the wharf in Liverpool the Indians recognized the spot where they 

 first set theirfeet upon English soil, and they raised the yell (not unlike the war-whoop) 

 which is given by war parties, when, returning from battle, they are able to see their 

 own village. This gathered a great crowd in a few moments that was exceedingly 

 difficult to disperse, and it instilled new ambition and strength into the poor Roman 

 Nose (ill with consumption), who thought in his weakness that they were near home, 

 but he rallied only to look out and realize that he was too far from his home ever to 

 see it again. 



Their exhibitions had been advertised to commence, and they proceeded with them. 

 Before they commenced, however, a feast was made to thank the Great Spirit for 

 having conducted them quite around England to the place from whence they started, 

 and also for the benefit of the health of their fellow warrior, the Roman Nose. 



A council was also held, when Mr. Melody and I were called in, and by some it was 

 proposed to start for home, and by others to go to Paris and see a king, as they had 

 tried, but in vain, to see the Queen of England. A visit to Paris had been a favorite 

 theme with them for some months past, and at length joined in the wish to see the 

 King and Queen of France. 



The most skillful physicians were called to attend the poor Roman Nose, and they 

 advised us to place him in a hospital. He was consulted, and, wishing to go, was re- 

 moved there, where the interpreter Jeffrey staid, and every attention was paid him. 

 A few nights of exhibitions in Liverpool finished our stay in that town, and brought 

 us to an engagement we had made for four nights in the Free-Trade Hall in Manches- 

 ter. 



ROMAN NOSE'S DEATH AT LIVERPOOL. 



Bobasheela's anxieties were now turned toward the poor suffering Roman Nose, and 

 he went to Liverpool to see him, and arrived with some of the Indians just in time to 

 see him breathe his last. Alas ! poor, fine fellow ! he went down gradually and regu- 

 larly to the grave ; and though amongst strangers, and far away from all of the graves 

 of his relatives, he died like a philosopher, and (though not a Christian) not unlike a 

 Christian. He said repeatedly to Jeffrey that he should live but so many days, and 

 afterwards so many hours, and seeired to be perfectly resigned to the change that 

 was to take place. He said that his time had come ; he was going to the beautiful 

 hunting-grounds, where he would soon see his friends who had gone before him ; he said 

 that when he shut his eyes he could plainly see them, and he felt sure it was only to 

 change the society of his friends here for that of his dear parents and other friends, 

 and he was now anxious to be with them. He said the road might be long, but it did 

 not matter where he started from ; the Great Spirit had promised him strength to 

 reach it. He told his friend Bobasheela that in his pouch he would find some money, 

 with which he wished him to buy some of the best vermillion, and, if possible, some 

 green paint, such as Chippehola used to get for him in London, and have them put in 

 his pouch with his flint and steel, and to be sure to be placed in his jjrave, that he 



