KILLING SLAVES FOR THE DEAD. 2-19 



' Most of the Kliketats flatten the forehead, but 

 not so much as the Chinooks or Puget Sound 

 Indians do. I am. decidedly of opinion that the 

 flattening of the cranium has no injurious effect 

 on the adult brain. Infants undergoino; the 



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process occasionally suffer, when undue pres- 

 sure has been applied. 



' The Indians of the present day have learnt 

 the whiteman's belief in a future state of exist- 

 ence beyond the grave, and the more reflecting 

 seem to accept it with great satisfaction. When 

 asked why the practice holds amongst them of 

 burying property with the dead, and killing horses 

 and even white slaves over the graves, the reply 

 is that they follow the customs of their fore- 

 fathers, who they think must have had a glim- 

 mering belief in a future state, and wished the 

 property, &c., to be with the deceased whereso- 

 ever placed. 



' I should at an earlier stage have mentioned 

 that the Wyeilat, or Kyoose, are considered for the 

 numbers as the most formidable and warlike 

 tribe of the interior, save the "Flatheads," living 

 east of Colville, and who do not flatten the head. 

 These Wyeilat are not properly Kliketats, but 

 interlopers to the southward, it is supposed ; their 

 original language now almost extinct, as the 



