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The journey up the river was rather uneventful, except that I was 
fortunate enough to kill a yearling buil moose about 150 miles south of 
the Bay. ‘This was the first fresh meat that we had had since the moose 
I killed on the Root River some two months before. Incidentaily, it 
may be said that we had no vegetables from the time we went in until 
the time we came out. After a return journey of sixteen days on the 
Missanabie or Moose River, we arrived at Missanabie on the Canadian 
Pacific Railroad August 27. 
It appears that the Ojibway visited once lived in a neighborhood 
considerably farther south, possibly in northern Minnesota, whence they 
pushed northward, almost to Hudson Bay. Since coming to the North, 
they have not only given up many of the manners and customs of the 
typical Ojibway of the south but have also taken on some of the cus- 
toms of the Eastern Cree. In addition they have evolved some new 
points of culture distinctively their own. All of these factors set them off 
as a distinct and separate body from the well-known historical Ojibway. 
There was secured upon the expedition a series of the articles of 
aboriginal manufacture now used by the Cree and Ojibway of the 
Hudson Bay Region. These articles consist of household utensils, 
games, clothing and a few ceremonial articles. At the same time, full 
notes on the ethnology and folk lore were made, and the results will 
soon be published. ALANSON SKINNER. 

MOSS AND BALSAM BOUGHS FOR BEDDING. RUPERT'S HOUSE, JAMES BAY. 
