, 1842-09-10
An Indian Girl.

WI n MARRihGE.-Mr. Catlin,
in his new work on Indian character,
gives the following graphic sketch OF
a love scene between Graham, the
English friend of Oceola. and the
niece of the unfortunate chief, which
the artist has Gelineated with the pen
Of a master.
1t was one Of those glowing even,
ings or the sunny South, when the
clouds are gi!ded in spIendor to a.
wait the departing god of light, after
a hard days toll in pursuit OF tiger,
which a. last fell, wounded by the RI
fe OF Graham, and finally dispatched
by the tomahawk Of his swarthy
friend, that the young officer first ex-
perienced the witchery Of love.
Wearied and feyerish with excite
meet, in a climate to which his system
haG scarcely become reconciied, he
! gladly accepted the proffered ham,
mock Of ne.ted grass, suspended by
NathIcocee, Oceosa's niece. beneath
the u~mhrageous, vide spreading bran
ches Of alaTge oak tree. from whose
limbs hang the graceful. yet melan-
| choly looking mosS-at times In les
toons, at others falling IN perPendic-
ular masses, TO the length Of eight
or ten feet; formiag a drapery iniin.
iteiy surprising in beauty and splen-
dor all the richest and most elaborate
works of art
In this simple. yet vigorously
| constructed arial couch, the young
hunter rePosed his weary limbs. while
| Nathleocee watched his disturbed
sleep, aud amused her busy fancy
| with his delirious mutterines in a Ian
cuage she could not comprehendi
whilst she carefully brushed away the
intrusive mosquitoes or the not less
ANNOYING sand flies with a fan made
Of feathers Of the pinawaw, or wild
turkey.
Alter a few hours repose Captain
Graham awoke refreshed, and turn
ing his still half closed eyes, they
rested upon a face of beauty of so
peculiar a character, and in such per-
feet accordance with his own roman
tic disposition, that his very soul felt
suddenly a thrill be had never before
experienced.
Before him stood, in blushing mod
estv, a perfect child Of nature-her
dazzling black eye flashing fire under
an excitement entirely new to her I'M
Sophisticated and primitive constitu-
ton. She felt ashamed, yet she knew
not whv-whilst Graham drank deep
and largely at the first springof love,
and dwelt with rapture upon the per-
feet symmetry of her form. as she
leaned against the huge trunk Of the
oak under which he had slept.
NathIeocee possessed not only a
face of loneliness, but a form which
might vie in beauty of proportion
with the most exquisite productions
the Roman or Grecian sculptor.
Her costume was such as would
shock the refined modesty of the
more intellectual class Of white fe-
males; but nature knows no shame
but that of sin, and assuredly it v'r-
tue consists in purity OF thought, SEN
timent or action, this artless girl was
as the fountain which dialy reflected
her unrivalled charms.
The upper part of her FORM &C
cordine to the custom of her tribe,
was left uncovered-her long black
hair foated TO the winds, unbraided,
over her finely proportioned Shout
ders; and as the, zephyrs caught the
unconfined tresses, they would play
upon a bust Venus herself might have
proudly owned. Her head was sur
mounted by a tuft of feathers pluck
- r., ,he -,,. of the snow white