190 Shells as evidence of the Migrations. 
Mr. Willoughby believes that cowry shells were sold 
to the Indians by the Hudson’s Bay Company late in the 
eighteenth or early in the nineteenth century. 
Prof. Henry Montgomery™ records and figures a cowry 
found near the so-called Onatonabee Serpent Mound, 
Peterboro County, Ontario. Mr. C. B. Moore, (of. 7. 
p. 295) says: “The shell described by Professor Mont- 
somery is a regular Cypr@a moneta, or money cowry of 
Africa and the East, and not a California shell. This 
shell, which, by the way, is not pierced for stringing, is 
probably one from the Hudson’s Bay Company stock. 
We do not think the sale of cowries to Indians in the 
North at a comparatively late date by the Hudson’s Bay 
Company indicates a relatively recent origin for the 
Roden mounds, for, at a period when the supplies of the 
Hudson’s Bay Company could have reached the makers 
of the Roden mounds, articles of Kuropean make could 
have got among them from all directions and the mounds 
presumably would have been well supplied with glass 
beads, brass, iron, and other things obtained from Euro- 
pean sources which, as we see, was very far from being 
the case.” 
In an old account by G. A. Cooke,” 
habits and customs of the Indians of the most northern 
parts of America, some interesting particulars are given 
concerning the ceremonies observed by certain tribes 
* dealing with the 
previous to waging war. One of the most hideous of 
these, Cooke informs us, was the setting of the war-kettle 
on the fire, as an emblem that they were going out to 
devour their enemies. A forcelane, or large shell, was 
then dispatched to their allies, inviting them to come 
along and drink the blood of their enemies. Unfortu- 
'¥* Trans. Canad. /nst., Toronto, 19to, ix. (i.) No. 20, p. 7, pl. iv., 
fig. 6 ( fide Moore). 
'¥* Cooke, of. ciZ., ii, p. 21. 
