KILLING SLAVES FOR THE DEAD. 249 
‘Most of the Kliketats flatten the forehead, but 
not so much as the Chinooks or Puget Sound 
Indians do. I am decidedly of opinion that the 
flattening of the cranium has no injurious effect 
on the adult brain. Infants undergoing the 
process occasionally suffer, when undue pres- 
sure has been applied. 
‘The Indians of the present day have learnt 
the whiteman’s belief in a future state of exist- 
ence beyond the grave, and the more reflecting 
seem to accept it with great satisfaction. When 
asked why the practice holds amongst them of 
burying property with the dead, and killing horses 
and even white slaves over the graves, the reply 
is that they follow the customs of their fore- 
fathers, who they think must have had a glim- 
mering belief in a future state, and wished the 
property, &c., to be with the deceased whereso- 
ever placed. 
‘IT should at an earlier stage have mentioned 
that the Wyeilat, or Kyoose, are considered for the 
numbers as the most formidable and warlike 
tribe of the interior, save the “ Flatheads,” living 
east of Colville, and who do not flatten the head. 
These Wyeilat are not properly Kliketats, but 
interlopers to the southward, it is supposed; their 
original language now almost extinct, as the 
