"The Indians have _no beards at all_, only may be one in twenty or so."
"The Indians _don't_ shave--they pull it out, when they have any beard."
"Virtuous?--Yes. I should say they are quite as much so as the whites, if the whites would keep away from them and let them alone."
"Ah, as amorous?--No. Mr. Catlin says they have not the spices of life and the imaginations to set them on, or I'll venture they would be quite as bad as the whites."
"The Indians in _America are not_ cannibals. Mr. Catlin says there is no such thing."
"No, there are no tribes that go entirely naked; they are all very decent."
"The Indians _don't_ eat raw meat, they cook it more than the whites do."
"Mr. Catlin was amongst the Indians eight years, and was never killed during that time."
"The scalp is a patch of the skin and hair taken from the top of the head by a warrior when he kills his enemy in battle."
"No, they don't scalp the living--it is not a scalp to count if the man is alive."
"They _sometimes_ eat a great deal, to be sure, but generally not so much as white people."
"They _do_ get drunk sometimes, but white people sell them rum and make them so, therefore I don't think we ought to call them drunkards exactly."
"The Indians all get married--some have a number of wives."
"Yes, they seem as fond of their wives as any people I ever saw."
"The Indians never injured Mr. Catlin in any way."
"Mr. Catlin _didn't_ live on 'raw meat;' he was one time eighteen months with nothing but meat to eat, but it was well cooked."
"The Indians know _nothing about salt_--they don't use it at all."
"Reason! yes; why, do you think they are wild beasts? to be sure they reason as well as we do."
"They _are_ thieves, sometimes; but I don't think they thieve so often as white people do."
"The Indians _do_ lend their wives sometimes to white men, but it is only their old superannuated ones, who are put aside to hard labour, so it is a sort of kindness all around, and I don't see that there is much harm in it."
"The Indians all have their religion, they all worship the Great Spirit."
"They are _treacherous_, to be sure, towards their enemies only, and I'll be whipped if the white people an't just as bad."
"The Indians _are cruel_, there's no mistake about that; but it is only to their enemies."