Chapter XXIII

Newcastle-on-Tyne--Indians' alarms about jails--Kind
visits from Friends--Mrs. A. Richardson--Advice of the
Friends--War-Chiefs 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--Sacrifice--Feast--Illness of the Roman
Nose--Indians visit a coalpit--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"--"Queen Mab"--Curious modes of
building--"Flats"--Origin of--Illness of Corsair, the
little _pappoose_--The old Doctor speaks--War-chief's
speech--A feast of ducks--Indians' remarks upon the
government of Scotland--"The swapping of crowns"--The
Doctor proposes the crown of Robert Bruce for Prince
Albert--Start for Dundee--Indians' liberality--A noble
act--Arrival at Dundee--Death of little Corsair--Distress
of the Little Wolf and his wife--Curious ceremony--Young
men piercing their arms--Indians at Perth--Arrival in
Glasgow--Quartered in the Town-hall--The cemetery--The
Hunterian Museum--The Doctor's admiration of it--Daily
drives--Indians throw money to the poor--Alarm for
_Roman Nose_--Two reverend gentlemen talk with the
Indians--War-chiefs remarks--Greenock--Doctor's regret at
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