CHAP. v. THE YOUNG NARQUAPEE. 83 



old men and women are marked on the lace like this 

 lad.' 



'Do you think Domenique would go back with us?' 



' Think not ; got children and squaw.' 



' Do you think he would let the young Nasquapee go 

 with us, to show us the portages ?' 



' Perhaps ! better not speak about it to-night ; give 

 Domenique good supper ; also Nasquapee ; make them 

 good Mends, and let them sleep well. I will talk to him 

 to-morrow about young Nasquapee ; perhaps he let him 

 go, if you make him good present.' 



' You think, then, you had better not speak about it 

 to-night?' 



' No, no ! Let Domenique eat and sleep ; then he talk 

 to-rnorrow.' 



We gave the two Indians a good supper, and sent some 

 flour and pork to his wife, who had made her camp about 

 thirty yards from ours at the foot of a large tree. I pro- 

 posed to myself the pleasure of visiting them at daylight, 

 to see how the Montagnais made their camp in the woods. 



' Where are you going to, Louis ? ' some one enquired, 

 as the Indian was rolling off into the woods with a torch 

 of birch-bark, about an hour after supper. 



' Get birch-bark for map.' 



'What map?' 



1 Domenique going to make map of portages, to show us 

 the way. To-morrow,' continued Louis, with a knowing- 

 leer, ' I speak to Domenique about young Nasquapee ; 

 Domenique well pleased like supper, like tobacco, like 

 everything. Think he will let young Nasquapee go. 7 



When Louis returned with the sheet of fresh birch- 



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