“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.”