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APPENDIX V. 



No. V. 



CENSUS OF TPIE POPULATION OF MACKENZIE'S RIVER 

 DISTRICT, JUNE 1, 1858, FROM THE REPORT OF JAMES 

 ANDERSON, ESQ., CHIEF FACTOR. 



Female infanticide obtains among several of these tribes of 

 Indians, and is the cause of the discrepancy between the 

 number of males and females. The Hudson's Bay Company 

 have succeeded in putting a stop to this practice in a great mea- 

 sure. At the Youcon Post, at the confluence of the Red and 

 Youcon Rivers, moose is killed in abundance. 



The Indian population in communication with the Youcon 

 Post are 474 males and 365 females ; they are a branch of the 

 Peel's River Loucheux (Koochin). The Youcon Indians in the 

 vicinity of the post are not hunters ; they make excursions 

 down the Youcon, and towards the coast, to trade with the 

 distant tribes, who appear to be a timid race, as they allow 

 themselves to be intimidated by the Youcon Indians, who either 

 take their furs at their own price or pillage them. 



