taken, nor a blow struck me, nor had occasion to raise my hand against an Indian; nor has my property been stolen as yet to my knowledge country where no man is punislhable by law for the crime of stealing, ** That the Indians in their native state are drunk en, is false, for they speaking, that ever I saw in my travels, or expect to see. If the civilizcd world are startled at this, it is the faet that they must battle with, not with me. to the value of a shilling, and that in a are the only temperance people, literally These people manufaeture no spirituous liquor themsclves, and know nothing of it until it is brought into their country, and tendered to them by Chris tians.

"That these people easily disproved with the paintings I have made, and with their beautiful costumes which I shall bring home. I shall be able to establish the fact that many of these people dress not only with clothes comfortable for any latitude, but that they dress also with some considerable taste and elegance. *** Nor am I quite sure that they are entitled to the name of 'poor who live in a country of boundless green fields, with good horses to ride; where they are all joint tenants of the soil to gether; where the Great Spirit has supplied them with an are naked, is equally untrue, and as abundance of food to eat."

Catlin found six hundred families of the Sioux camped one time around Fort Pierre, at the mouth of the Teton River, at on thc west bank of the Missouri. There were some twenty bands, each with their chief, over whom was one superior chicf, called IHa-won-je-tah (the One Horn), whose portrait is one of the finest in Catlin's book. This ehief took lhis name, "One Ilorn," from a little shell which he wore always on his neck. This shell had descended to him from his father, and he said "he valued it more than anything whieh he possessed: affording people often cherish for the dead, inasmuch as he chose to striking iustance of the living affection which these