ever returns. The absent relations are made acquainted with this melancholy event by blackening the bark of a tree and leaving a branch bent over it like the weeping willow. Every Relative who passes were it in twenty years afterwards strews the grave with green Boughs as a mark of respect for the memory of his Departed friend. They mourn by wearing the hair loose and fastening the strings of the deceased's shoes round their wrist[.]

They reckon time by moons & nights and they amuse themselves by Draugh[ts] & the game of the Cross.

Their snow shoes are made nearly in the shape of a guitar. Those who inhabit the plain flat part of the country make them turned up at both ends and laced only in the middle. They make their Canoes like those of the Crees of Athabasca and so they do their sledges which are hauled by Dogs & themselves when there animals are scarce. In summer they make their Dogs lug along their filthy goods across the back in such huge heaps that at a little distance off neither head paws

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