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considerable similarity in their languages. Their 

 dress also resembles the Esquimaux, and differs 

 from that of the other inhabitants of Mackenzie's 

 River. The Tykothee-dinneh trade with Fort 

 Good-Hope, situated a considerable distance 

 below the confluence of Bear Lake River with 

 IVIackenzie's River, and as the traders suppose, 

 within three days' march of the Arctic Sea. It 

 IS the most northern establishment of the North- 

 ^^est Company, and some small pieces of Rus- 

 sian copper coin once made their way thither 

 across the continent from the westward. Blue 

 or white beads are almost the only articles of 

 i^uropean manufacture coveted by the Loucheux. 

 Ihey perforate the septum of the nose, and 

 insert in tlie opening three small shells which 

 '^' ^''^^"'^ ""^ ^ h^gh price from the Esquimaux. 

 On the west bank of Mackenzie's River there 

 are several tribes who speak dialects of the 

 ClHi^ewyan language, that have not hitherto been 

 — ned.The first you come to, on tracing 

 r "^aT "'^'"^^^ ^-- Fort Good-Hope, 

 tL .t"'"'""'^''''-^"^''^^^' «^ Sheep Indians. 

 ^JZ f V' ^^^^y Mountains near the 

 fio^ nt m"": ^^^^-^-^-eh River which 

 fio.. into Mackenzie's, and are but little known 



Gc^S^Ho .'^"^^ '' ^^^- h-- --ted Fort 

 ^ope. A report of their being cannibals 



