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very dry, and they wished to go where they couUl get clams and fish. 

 The Twanas only remained with me until next morning, when we left. 



The amounts given by the men, as near as I could learn, were as fol- 

 lows : 



Wednesday: Money, $;00; one beef, $30; one gun, $8; total, $138. 



Thursday: Money, $170; one canoe, $20; twenty blankets, $40; 

 total, $230. 



Friday: Money, $270; one gun, $10; twenty seven blankets, $54; 

 total, $354. 



Saturday: Money, $430; twenty-five blankets, $50 ; total, $480. 



Sunday: Money, $420; twenty blankets, $40; total, $460. Total: 

 Money, $1,390; blankets, $184; miscellaneous, $68; whole amount, 

 $1,542. 



One hundred dollars of Old Slaze's money belonged to his wife, but 

 they combined together. 



The men present received various sums, generally about $10 each, 

 but some received as much as $30. Besides this, seventeen women gave 

 to the other women calico at different times from Monday until Friday, 

 each piece containing generally 5 yards, but varying from 4 to 9 yards. 

 A rough estimate made the whole of this amount to 5,000 yards. There 

 was only one case each of drunkenness and quarrelling that came to my 

 knowledge. 



During most of the time there was a large amount of gambling among 

 the men, and some among the women, with disks and bones. 



FUNERAL AND BURIAL CUSTOMS. 



Their sepulchers, as far as I can learn, represent five different ages 

 and have, to some extent, co existed. There are places where skeletons 

 and parts of them have been plowed up or still remain in the ground, 

 and near together in such a way as to give ground for the belief that for- 

 merly Indians were buried in the ground and not in regular cemeteries. 

 Such deposits exist at Doswailopsh, among the Twanas, and at Dun- 

 giness and Port Angeles, among the Klallams. These graves were 

 made so long ago that the Indians of the present day profess to have 

 no knowledge of the occupants, but believe them to have been their 

 ancestors. They care so little however about the remains that fifteen 

 years ago the land containing bones at Doswailopsh was taken by a 

 white man, and they were told to remove the dead before all traces of 

 the graves were obliterated, but no one went there to do so, nor were 

 they angry when the underbrush of the cemetery was burned and the 

 ground plowed and levelled. 



Formerly when a person died, the body was placed in a box which 

 was put in a canoe, and the canoe placed in the forks of two trees and 

 left there. ' There was no particular cemetery, but the body is said to 

 have been left near where the death occurred. The Skokomish Valley 

 ■was once, I am told, full of sepulchral canoes. An old resident informs 



