Eleven Ojibbeway Indians arrive from London--Their exhibitions in the Author's Collection--Portraits and description of--Their amusements--Their pledge to sobriety--_Chickabobboo_ explained to them--Birth of a _Pappoose_--M. Gudin; Indians and the Author dine with him--His kind lady--The Author breakfasts with the Royal Family in the palace at St. Cloud--Two Kings and two Queens at the table--The Author presented to the King and Queen of the Belgians by Louis Philippe, in the salon--Count de Paris--Duc de Brabant--Recollects the Indian pipe and mocassins presented to him by the Author in the Egyptian Hall--Duchess of Orleans--The Princess Adelaide--The King relates anecdotes of his life in America--Washington's farewell address--Losing his dog in the Seneca village--Crossing Buffalo Creek--Descending the Tioga and Susquehana rivers in an Indian canoe to Wyoming, the Author's native valley--The King desires the Author to arrange his whole Collection in the Louvre for the private views of the Royal Family--He also appoints a day to see the Ojibbeways in the Park at St. Cloud--Great rejoicing of the Indians--A _dog-feast_--The Indians and the Author dine a second time at M. Gudin's 278
Indians' visit to the Palace of St. Cloud--The Park--Artificial lake--Royal Family--Prince de Joinville--Recollected seeing the Author and Collection in Washington--King and Queen of Belgians--The _regatta_--The birch-bark canoe, and the Prince de Joinville's "Whitehaller"--War-dance--Ball-play--Archery--Dinner prepared for the Indians--M. Gudin and the Author join them--Indians' return--Gossip at night--Their ideas of the King and Royal Family--Messenger from the King, with gold and silver medals and money, to the Indians--The War-chief cures a cancer--Author's Collection in the _Salle de Séance_, in the Louvre--The Indians and the Author dine with M. Passy, Member of Deputies--Kind treatment by himself and lady--King visits the Collection in the Louvre--The Author explains his pictures--Persons present--An hour's visit--The King retires--Second visit of the King and Royal Family to the Collection--The Author's four little children presented to the King--His Majesty relates the anecdote of bleeding himself in America, and his visit to General Washington at Mount Vernon--His descent of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers in a small boat, to New Orleans--Orders the Author to paint fifteen pictures for Versailles 287