Copy 1, Volume 1

Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians. By Geo. Catlin. Written during eight years' travel amongst the wildest tribes of Indians in North America, in 1832, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 39... With four hundred illustrations, carefully engraved from his original paintings / [George Catlin].

  • George Catlin
Date:
1844
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Credit: Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians. By Geo. Catlin. Written during eight years' travel amongst the wildest tribes of Indians in North America, in 1832, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 39... With four hundred illustrations, carefully engraved from his original paintings / [George Catlin]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ay civilized man; 90,000 of such have already been removed, and they draw from Government some 5 or 600,000 dollars annually in cash ; which money passes be abundantly furnished. But who, I would ask, are to furnish the Indians who have been instructed in this unnatural mode—living upon such neces- saries, and even luxuries of life, extended to them by the hands of white men, when those annuities are at an end, and the skin is stripped from the last of the animals which God gave them for their subsistence ? Reader, I will stop here, lest you might forget to answer these important queries—these are questions which I know will puzzle the world—and, per- haps it is not right that I should ask them. 4 a 5 if Mr Thus much I wrote and painted at this place, whilst on my way up the river: after which I embarked on the steamer for the Yellow Stone, and the sources of the Missouri, through which interesting regions I have made a successful Tour ; and have returned, as will have been seen by the foregoing narrations, in my canoe, to this place, from whence I am to descend the river still further in a few days. If I ever get time, I may give further Notes on this place, and of people and their doings, which I met with here; but at present, ] throw my note-book, and canvass, and brushes into my canoe, which will be launched to-morrow morning, and on its way towards St. Louis, with myself at the steering-oar, as usual; and with Ba‘tiste and Bogard to paddle, of whom, I beg the readers’ pardon for having said nothing of late, though they have been my constant companions. Our way is now over the foaming and muddy waters of the Missouri, and amid snags and drift logs (for there is a sweeping freshet on her waters), and many a day will pass before other Letters will come from me; and possibly, the reader may have to look to my biographer for the rest. Adieu. END OF VOL. I. €. AND J. ADLARD, PRINTERS, BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE, LONDON. >