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same effect in his case, as it has done in some 
others which are recorded: a flow of milk ac: 
tually took place from his breast. He succeeded 
in rearing his child, taught him to be a hunter; 
and when he attained the age of manhood, chose 
him a wife from the tribe. The old man kept his 
vow in never taking a second wife himself, but 
he delighted in tending his son’s children, and 
when his daughter-in-law used to interfere, saying, 
that it was not the occupation of a man, he was 
wont to reply, that he had promised to the great 
Master of Life, if his child was spared, never to 
be proud, like the other Indians. He used to 
mention, too, as a certain proof of the approba- 
tion of Providence, that although he was always 
obliged to carry his child on his back while hunt- 
ing, yet that it never roused a moose by its cries, 
being always particularly still at those times. 
this Indian in his old age, and that his left breast» 
even then, retained the unusual size it had ac- 
quired in his occupation of nurse.” 
“We had proof of their sensibility towards their 
relations, in their declining to pitch their tents 
where they had been accustomed to do for many 
years, alleging a fear of being reminded of the 
7 dens : Poy 
* Mr. Wentzel. 
