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"These cabins are so spacious," Catlin remarks, "that they hold from twenty to forty persons a family and all their connections.... From the great numbers of the inmates in these lodges they are necessarily very spacious, and the number of beds considerable. The household, according to the custom of the Indians, was a large one.
"What gets me," he burst out, "is that Gawd A'mighty could 'a' let a skunk like Moran do a thing like that! And then" his voice swelled as though the words he was about to utter exceeded the first "and then let the varmint get away from me!" Dr. Catlin nodded sympathy with the statement and turned to Dorothy.
When wives are from thirty-five to forty years of age, they are frequently cast off by the husbands, or are given to the younger men in exchange for their sisters or near relatives, if such are at their disposal. Catlin, vol. i. p. 216.
With the tribes of North America, Catlin estimates that eighteen out of twenty men are completely destitute by nature of a beard; but occasionally there may be seen a man, who has neglected to pluck out the hairs at puberty, with a soft beard an inch or two in length.
Mr Catlin says, that in seeing the Comanche horse, he was much disappointed; it is likely, Mr Catlin having only visited the northern borders of Texas, and the poorest village of the whole Comanche tribe. If, however, he had proceeded as far as the Rio Puerco, he would have seen the true Mecca breed, with which the Moslems conquered Spain.
Louis and the Wampatuck appeared off Guantanamo about daylight, and the Wampatuck, with Lieutenant Jungen in command and Chief Officer Seagrave, Ensign Payne, Lieutenant Catlin and eight marines and four seamen on board, steamed into the mouth of the harbor, and, dropping a grapnel in eight fathoms of water, proceeded to drag across the mouth of the harbor for the cable.
Catlin affectionately mentioned by Dorothy in every other breath as "Elaine"; she and Dorothy had been taken to Europe together, after their schooldays, and had formed an intimacy then. Dorothy came into the big hall to meet her cousin and his wife, and, with a little laugh, kissed Bert.
Catlin has with pen and brush described it in a way to chill the blood and fill our sleeping hours with horrid dreams. Suffice to say that Oowikapun put himself in the hands of the torturers, and, first of all, they kept him for four days and nights without allowing him a mouthful of food or drink. Neither did they permit him to have a moment's sleep.
According to all the reports, the "bravest of the braves" in the Mandan towns was Mahtotohpa; second chief by rank, but first of all by deeds. "Free, generous, elegant, and gentlemanly in his deportment handsome, brave and valiant," says Artist Catlin. Such words speak well for Four Bears, but not a bit too well.
Catlin spent a considerable time among the Mandans soon after the visit of Prince Maximilian, and had unusual opportunities of studying them. Beauharnois au Ministre, 14 Aout, 1739. Thus, though the report of the two brothers is too concise and brief, we know what they saw when they entered the central area, or public square, of the village.
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