“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.”