They are very much afraid of the dead ; but when they perceive that they must die, they are very brave and more ferocious than beasts. When a lad courts a girl, he buys her generally in a neighboring village, and this done, tlie daughter is then delivered to him by two or three other women, wlio come carrying on their heads meal, roots, corn and otlier articles, to the young man's hut, and he receives her. The dwellings are commonly circular ; with a vent hole above to let out the smoke ; closed with four doors, consisting most of the bark of trees which are very abundant there. They sleep on the ground covered with leaves and skins. At their meals they sit on the ground. Each highly esteems his own cliildren, wlio grow up very lively. The women sew skins into clotliing, prepare bread, cook tlie meat which the men hunt and kill with arrows, especially in the winter when all is bare in the fields and but scanty forage is to be picked oif the snow ; then the animals approach tlie villages and are shot.

It is very common among thein for one man to buy and to

have many wives, but not in one place ; when he jour- Poiygamy. ucys fivc OT slx mllcs he finds another wife who also

takes care of him ; five or ten miles furtlier, he again finds another wife who keeps house and so on to several ; commonly buying up peltries through the country. But as those inland find that furs are sold clieap among them, they come down themselves to the rivers and trade witli tlie Nations as best they can. Also those who will trade with them must furnish them food at an inhabitant's in the village -- let them cook theii* meat and fish there, as much as they like, and then they thank the trader.