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very rare. Asa general rule I think the scrip- 
tural limit is rarely exceeded. 
Q. Have they any contagious disease, or any 
endemic disease, or goitre, pelagra, plica, and the 
like? 
A. (Anderson.)—Goitre does not exist on this 
side of the rocky mountains. On the Saskat- 
chewan and Pine River it is common. 
A. (Tolmie.)—No goitre known west of the 
rocky mountains. 
Q. How do they generally dispose of the dead ; 
and are implements, articles of clothing, food, &c., 
- &c., deposited with the dead? 
A. (Anderson.)—Among some tribes by burn- 
ing, among others by burial in the ground, 
or depositing.in canoes or boxes above the 
surface. Offerings are frequently deposited 
about the places of sepulture, and sacrifices of 
horses (and where slavery exists, of slaves) are 
made. 
A. (Tolmie.)—The Indians dispose of their 
dead by interment or burning, or in canoes placed 
on trees, or rocks, according to the nature of the 
country. ‘The carrier Indians of New Caledonia, 
and the Chimmesyans on the coast, and other 
tribes speaking their language, burn the dead. 
In New Caledonia, at the burning, the widow in 
