26 CHEPEWYANS. 



breed of dogs, which run lightly over the crusted 

 snow, and hold the animal at bay until the Indian 

 comes up in his snow shoes. At other times of 

 the year, the success of the Hare Indians and Dog- 

 ribs in killing the moose is small, as they have not 

 the skill of approaching so wary an animal which 

 the Athabascans and Crees possess. Rein-deer are 

 captured in pounds and by nooses, but are in the 

 present day more generally killed with the fowling- 

 piece, which is also the weapon used against the 

 musk-ox. The pounds are formed on the verge of 

 the woods, and are made with much less labour 

 than those of the Kutchin; yet, as they need the ex- 

 ertions of all the community for their construction, 

 the indolence of the major part causes them to 

 be rarely made. The black bear is snared or shot, 

 but few of the Dog-ribs will venture to attack the 

 " brown barren -ground bear," whose fierceness, or, 

 as they say, " potent medicine," appals them. It 

 is killed by them, however, without risk when it is 

 detected hybernating under the snow in spring. 



Order is maintained in the tribe solely by public 

 opinion. It is no one's duty to repress immorality 

 or a breach of the laws of society which custom 

 has established among them, but each opposes 

 violence as he best may by his own arm or the 

 assistance of his relations. A man's conduct must 

 be bad indeed, and threaten the general peace, 



