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husband meets his loss with the resignation which 

 custom prescribes in such a case, and seeks his 

 revenge by taking the wife of another man weaker 

 than himself. From a passage in one of Mr. Mur- 

 ray's letters, I infer that this practice extends to 

 the Kutchin, but it is unknown among the Cree 

 tribes, and does not exist among the Eskimos. 

 The 'Tinne are said to be jealous of their wives ; 

 but rather, I believe, lest they should be enticed 

 away, than from any nice sense of honour. The 

 laxity of morals, however, with respect to female 

 chastity, which prevails in the Eskimo tribes is not 

 conspicuous in the 'Tinne, and is, perhaps, contrary 

 to the national character, though some corruption 

 may have crept in through their acquaintance with 

 white people. 



Before the introduction of articles of European 

 manufacture, the 'Tinne caught fish with hooks of 

 bone, or speared them with weapons pointed with 

 bone or copper. Some of their fish harpoons were 

 constructed very artistically. They also used, and 

 still continue to use, nets made of lines of twisted 

 willow bark, or thin stripes of deer-hide cut very 

 evenly. Nets are unknown among the northern 

 tribes west of the Mackenzie, and some of the 

 parties of the Eskimos that we saw declared their 

 ignorance of their use. On the banks of the Mac- 

 kenzie and other rivers frequented by moose-deer, 

 these animals are hunted in spring by a small 



