120 JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 
“upon attaining the summit of which they are re- 
warded with the prospect of an extensive plain, 
abounding in all sorts of game, and interspersed 
here and there with new tents, pitched in agree- 
able situations. Whilst they are absorbed in 
the‘contemplation of this delightful scene, they 
ate descried by the inhabitants of the happy 
land, who, clothed in new skin-dresses, approach 
and welcome with every demonstration of kind- 
ness those Indians who have led good lives ; but 
the bad Indians, who have imbrued their hands 
in the blood of their countrymen, are told to ree 
turn from whence they came, and without more 
ceremony precipitated down the steep sides of 
the mountain. 
~ Women, who have been guilty of infanticide, 
never reach the mountain at all, but are com- 
pelled to hover round the seats of their crimes, 
with branches of trees tied to their legs. The 
melancholy sounds, which are heard in the still 
summer evenings, and which the ignorance of the 
white people considers as the screams of the 
goat-sucker, are really, according to my inform- 
ant, the moanings of these unhappy beings. 
- The Crees have somewhat similar notions, but 
as they inhabit a country widely different from 
the mountainous lands of the Blackfoot Indians, 
the difficulty of their journey lies in walking along 
