46 THE CAROLINA PARROT. 
Indians, among whom he was travelling, col- 
lected about him whenever he stopped, men, 
women, and children, laughing greatly at his 
novel companion. Kelinky was the name the 
Chickasaws called the parrot; but hearing the 
name of Poll, they immediately adopted it, and 
through Poll’s medium, he and the Indians al- 
ways became very sociable. ‘‘ On arriving,” says 
Wilson, ‘ at Mr. Dunbar’s, below Natchez, I 
procured a cage, and placed it under the piazza, 
where, by its call, it soon attracted the pass- 
ing flocks, such is the attachment they have for 
each other. Numerous parties frequently alighted 
on the trees immediately above, keeping up a 
continual conversation with the prisoner. One 
of these I wounded slightly in the wing, and 
the pleasure Poll expressed on meeting with this 
new companion, was really amusing. She crept 
close up to it, as it hung on the side of the 
cage; chattered to it in a loud tone of voice, 
as if sympathising in its misfortunes; scratched 
about its head and neck with her bill; and both, 
at night, nestled as close as possible to each 
other, sometimes Poll’s head being thrust among 
