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7. Mah-to-he-ha (the Old Bear), a medicine-man of the Mandans. 



8. Wan-ce- toai, one of the most distinguished chiefs of the Sioux. 



9. Ee-ah-sa-pa (the Black Rock), a Sioux chief, full length. 



10. Mu-hu-sliee-kaw (the White Cloud), Ioway chief. 



11. Shon-ta-ye-ee-ga (the Little Wolf), an Ioway warrior. 



12. Wa-tah-we-buck-a-nah (the Commanding General), au Ioway boy. 



13. Maun-gua-daus, an Ojibboway chief. 



14. Say-say-gon (Hail Storm), an Ojibbeway warrior. 



15. Ah-wun-ne-wa-be (the Thunder-Bird), Ojibbeway warrior. 



His Majesty had on several occasions, in former interviews, spoken of the great 

 interest of the scenes of the early history of the French colonies of America and 

 French explorations and discoveries in those regions, and the subject was now re- 

 sumed again, as one of peculiar interest, affording some of the finest scenes for the 

 pencil of the artist, which he thought I was peculiarily qualified to illustrate. Ad- 

 ditional anecdotes of his rambling life in America were very humorously related ; and 

 after the interview I returned to my painting-room, and continued happily engaged 

 at my other pictures, with my familiar sweet smiles and caresses about me. — Pages 

 316, 317, vol. 2, Catlin's Notes' of Europe. 



Mr. Catlin Leaves Paris for London. 



FINANCIAL DISASTER AND LOSS OF THE GALLERY. 



The revolution of February, 1848, at Paris, which dethroned and 

 ejected Louis Philippe, was disastrous to Mr. Catlin. He placed his 

 three children (girls) at school, and at a great expense and risk carried 

 his gallery and museum to London, where he reopened it at No. G Water 

 loo Place, and it remained on exhibition two years. This was a dis 

 astrous season for him. A victim to speculators, his gallery and ma 

 seum were seized in 1852, and released by a patriotic American, Mr 

 Joseph Harrison, jr., of Philadelphia, Pa., who paid off the indebtedness 

 and in 1852-'53 shipped the gallery and museum to the United States 

 (In the preface herein is told the manner of its becoming the property 

 of the United States.) 



ITINERARY.— 1852-1871. 



In 1852 I sailed to Havana, to Venezuela; went to the Orinoko and Demerara ; 

 ascended the Essequibo; crossed the Tumucamache (or Crystal) Mountains; to the 

 headwaters of the Tronibutas, which I descended in a pirogue to the Amazon, at 

 Obidos, as described in ''Life amongst the Indians" (Apnleton), and from that to 

 Para, having seen Carribbees, Gooagives, Arowaks, Wayaways, Macouchies, Taru- 

 mas, and Zurnmatis. 



From Para I took steamer to the Barra, to Tabatinga, and Nauta ; from Nauta I 

 descended the Amazon to Obidos, one thousand miles, in a cupola boat, as described 

 in Appendix A of this catalogue, helping to row my own boat, and seeing thirty of the 

 one hundred tribes of Indians said to inhabit the shores of that river. 



I afterwards ascended the Amazon again, and went on a gold-hunting expedition 

 to the Acarai Mountain, described in " Last Rambles" [a juvenile book, Appleton]. 

 Returning to the Amazon, I took an ascending steamer toNauta, and ascended the 

 Yucayali to the Connibos, four hundred miles, and made a tour on horseback across 

 the "Pampas del Sacramento" to the base of the eastern sierra of the Andes, making 

 many sketches of the beautiful pampas and mountains, and seeing on the Yucayali 

 and the pampas the Remos, Pacapacurus, the Connibos, the Chetibos, and Sepibos. 



