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The little Due de Brabant recollected the small pipe and mocassins I had presented 

 him when he visited my collection in the Egyptian Hall, London, under the protec- 

 tion of the Hon. Mr. Murray. 



LOUIS PHILIPPE'S AMERICAN REMINISCENCES, 1796 TO 1798. 



I had a few minutes' conversation with the King of the Belgians, and also with the 

 graceful and pensive Duchess of Orleans, and our ears were then all turned to the 

 recitals of his Majesty, around whom we had gathered, whilst he was relating sev- 

 eral scenes of his early life in America, in company with his two brothers, the Due de 

 Montpensier and the Count Beaujolais, which it seemed my advent with the Indians 

 had brought up with unusual freshness in his mind. 



He commented in the most eloquent terms upon the greatness and goodness of Gen- 

 eral Washington, and told us that he and his brothers were lucky enough to have 

 been present and heard his Farewell Address in Philadelphia, which he had been in the 

 habit of reflecting upon as one of the most pleasurable and satisfactory incidents of 

 his life. 



He gave us an amusing account of his horse getting mired in crossing Buffalo 

 Creek, and of his paying a visit to the tribe of Seneca Indians, near to the town of 

 Buffalo, on Lake Erie. He said : 



" Being conducted to the village and to the chiefs wigwam, I shook hands with 

 the chief, who came and stood by my horse's head, and while some hundreds of men, 

 women, and children were gathering around, I told the chief that I had come to 

 make him a visit of a day or two, to which he replied that he was very glad to see 

 me, and I should be made quite welcome, and treated to the best that he had. He said 

 there would be one condition, however, which was, that he should require me to give 

 hirn everthing I had; he should demand my horse, from which I would dismount, 

 and having given him the bridle, he said, 'I now want your gun, your watch, and 

 all your money ; these are indispensable.' 



" I then, for the first time in my life, began to think that I was completely robbed 

 and plundered ; but at the moment when he had got all, and before I had time for 

 more than an instant thought of my awkward condition, he released me from further 

 alarm by continuing, ' If you have anything else which you wish to be sure to get 

 again, I wish you to let me have it; for whatever you deliver into my hands now 

 you will be sure to find safe when you are about to leave ; otherwise I would not 

 be willing to vouch for their safety ; for there are some of my people whom we can- 

 not trust to.' 



"From this moment I felt quite easy, and spent a day or two in their village very 

 pleasantly and with much amusement. When I was about to leave, my horse was 

 brought to the chiefs door and saddled, and all the property I had left in his hands 

 safely restored. 



" I then mounted my horse, and, having taken leave, and proceeded a short dis- 

 tance on my route, I discovered that I had left my favorite dog, which I had been too 

 much excited and amused to think of, and did not recollect to have seen after I en- 

 tered their village. 



'* I turned my horse and rode back to the door of the chiefs wigwam, and made in- 

 quiries for it. The chief said, ' But you did not intrust your dog to my care, did 

 you?' ' No, I did not think of my poor dog at the time.' 'Well then,' said he, 'I 

 can't answer for it. If you had done as I told you, your dog would have been safe. 

 However,' said he, 'we will inquire for it.' At which moment one of his little sons 

 was ordered to run and open a rude pen or cage by the corner of the wigwam, and 

 out leaped my dog, and sprang upon my leg as I was sitting on my horse. I offered 

 the honest chief a reward for his kindness ; but he refused to accept it, wishing me 

 to recollect, whenever I was among Indians again, to repose confidence in an Indian's 

 word, and feel assured that all the property intrusted to an Indian's care I would be 

 sure to find safe whenever I wanted it again." 

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