Excerpt from Catlin's Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe, With His North American Indian Collection, Vol. 2 of 2: With Anecdotes and Incidents of the Travels and Adventures of Three Different Parties of American Indians Whom He Introduced to the Courts of England, France, and Belgium
N ewcastle-on-tyne - Indians' alarms about jails - Kind visits from Friends - Mrs. A. Richardson - Advice of the F riends - war-chief's reply Liberal presents - Arrive at sunderland-kindness of the Friends - All breakfast with Mr. T. Richardson - Indians plant trees in his garden And the Author also - The Doctor's superstition - Sacriflee - Feast - Illness of the Roman Nose - Indians visit a coal pit - North Shields A sailors' dinner and a row - Arrive at Edinburgh - A drive - First exhibition there - Visit to Salisbury Crag - To Arthur's Seat - Holyrood House and Castle - The crown of Robert Bruce - The big gun.
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