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gathered in camp around the Hudson’s Bay Company’s and Revillon 
Fréres’ stores. ‘These Indians aiso were afraid of us, as they had been 
warned by messages sent from Lac Seui as to our kidnapping propen- 
sities. I aimost immediately got myself into difficulty by giving a ten 
cent piece to an attractive baby. A council was catied at once to de- 
termine whether I was attempting to charm the chiid to death or not. 
But the missonary and the Hudson’s Bay and Reviilon Company’s 
factors got word of it, came to Fort Hope and persuaded the Indians 
that our intentions were not bad. 
‘The Indians decided, however, to send for their most noted shaman, 
Waboose-Inini or “Rabbit Man.” The oid fellow was hunting some 
distance from the Fort but put in his appearance a few days iater, camp- 
ing about three miles outside of the Post. He immediately sent word to 
me that he wished to see me. ‘To this I replied that I was very busy and 
could not bother with coming. A second messenger shortly arrived in- 
quiring why I was so busy that I could not see so great a man as Waboose- 
Inini. My reply was that I was learning all about shamanism from 
a rival whom we knew the old fellow did not 

another medicine-man 
like. Waboose-Inini arrived next morning at our camp and we kept 
busily employed writing in our notebooks all the morning, while the old 
man sat about smoking. ‘loward noon he would have departed, but I 
asked him to stay for dinner, and on the following day the old man 
appeared again about meal time. ‘This time he was not only invited to 
stay, but I gave him something to eat from my piate. He told me that 
no white man had honored him so before. When on the third day, he 
happened around at the noon hour and was again invited to dine, his 
delight knew no bounds and he burst out with, “Tell the young white 
chief that if there is anything he wants to know, I will tell him. I know 
everything. ‘These other people are nothing but old women. I am the 
only one about here who knows how to make medicine.”’ 
After this, we were on most friendly terms and the other Indians 
seeing that I was accepted by the shaman also became friendly so that 
we were able to secure many photographs and quite a collection of 
specimens, notwithstanding that the Indians were at first afraid of the 
camera and in spite of the fact that most of the old customs have gone out 
within the past fifty years. 
Few of the Northern Indians now seem to practise their ancient 
culture, in fact, they are much less primitive in many ways than our own 
