CRUISE AMONG HAIDA AND TLINGIT VILLAGES. 165 



forests of Brazil. Masset typifies in itself that process of change and 

 decay which we find going on among the aborigines all over the con- 



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tinent. The totem poles drop one by one; the great massive houses 

 of the old times, with their mighty cedar beams, slowly succumb 

 to the wind and the weather; the old grave posts totter and fall, 



