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nuance, and it is the custom both for men and 

 women to lament the death of relations for years, 

 by nightly wailings. 



Hospitality is not a virtue which is conspicuous 

 among the Dog-ribs, who differ in this respect 

 from the Eythinyuwuk, in whose encampments a 

 stranger meets a welcome and a proffer of food. 

 It is not customary, however, for the Dog-rib 

 to receive the traveller who enters his tent with 

 the same show of kindness. If he is hungry, and 

 meat hangs up, he may help himself without elicit- 

 ing a remark, for the 'Tinne hold it to be mean to 

 say much about a piece of meat ; or he may exert 

 his patience until some cookery goes on, and then 

 join in the meal; and should there be venison at 

 hand, he will not have long to wait, for every now 

 and then some one is prompted to hang a kettle 

 on the fire, or to place a joint or steak to roast 

 before it. 



Another habit which darkens the shade in the 

 character of these Indians is that of lying, which 

 they carry to such an extent, even among them- 

 selves, that they can scarcely be said to esteem 

 truth a virtue. If a young man has been suc- 

 cessful in his morning's hunt in a time of famine, 

 he does not rush into his family circle with joy 

 beaming on his countenance, to tell that there is 

 food, but, assuming an aspect of sadness, squats 



