Country produce, such as their own hunt & which they chiefly deposit upon scaffolds raised a certain height above the earth so as to be out of the reach of malicious beasts.

The Indians of the red or assiniboine River in general have no ceremonies in their marriages or union of the Sexes; a Young man that has taken a wife for the first time is under great difficulties and out of modesty, bashfulness, or custom, appears but Seldom in his father-in-law's Tent, or Lodge in the day time. They always come to Sleep with the bride after nightfall, and retire at day break. They hunt the whole day to the emolument of their father-in-law, and in this servile condition they are obliged to remain the Space of a year and sometimes longer if the bride does not bring forth a Son or a daughter to deliver the young Indian from Slavery; after that is done he is at liberty to choose for himself any residence he thinks proper;

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