Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . Mr. Catlin gives the following narrative of athrilling adventure, which took place while he wasexhibiting a party of Iowa Indians at his exhibitionrooms in London :— The night of this memorable day I had announcedas the last night of the Indians at the Egyptian Hall,arrangements having been effected for their exhibi-tions to be made a few days in Yauxhall Gardens BOBASHEELA. 2167 before leav
Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . Mr. Catlin gives the following narrative of athrilling adventure, which took place while he wasexhibiting a party of Iowa Indians at his exhibitionrooms in London :— The night of this memorable day I had announcedas the last night of the Indians at the Egyptian Hall,arrangements having been effected for their exhibi-tions to be made a few days in Yauxhall Gardens BOBASHEELA. 2167 before leaving London for some of the provincialtowns. This announcement, of course, brought adense crowd into the Hall, and in it, as usual, manyof my old friends, to take their last gaze at theIndians. The amusements were proceeding this evening ason former occasions, when a sudden excitement wasraised in the following manner. In the midst of oneof their noisy dances, the war-chief threw himself,with a violent jump and a yell of the shrill war-whoop, to the corner of the platform, where he landedon his feet in a half-crouching position, with his eyesand one of his forefingers fixed upon something thatattr
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