children "My grandfather we are glad to see you, and happy to find that you are not come in a shameful manner for you have brought plenty of your young men with you: be not angry at us; we are obliged to destroy you to make ourselves live.'

After the Harangue is over they Smoke their pipes Sitting around the Parc and then they shoot all the herd down with their arrows; fire arms are prohibited upon this occasion. The Slaughter being finished the chief of the Park distributes a little swans down coloured in Vermilion upon each Buffaloes head and leaves every person at liberty to take what he thinks proper. But So superstitious are these people that the chief of the Park thinks, if he were to eat any of the meat thus killed it would be out of his power to make Buffaloes enter his Park ever after; so that he must have meat killed in the open Fields for his own use.

They testify their sorrow for their deceased much in the same manner that the Crees and Saulteux do; by Piercing their thighs and arms with arrows cutting their

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