ARCTIC 

 SEARCHING EXPEDITION. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



OF THE 'TINNE OR CHEPEWYANS. 



GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION. — NATIONAL NAME. — TRIBES. — HARE 



INDIANS AND DOG-RIBS. PERSONAL APPEARANCE. WOMEN. 



— DRESS. — DISPOSITIONS. — WARS. SOCIALISM. — IMPROVI- 

 DENCE. SUFFERING. AFFECTION FOR THEIR CHILDREN. 



HOSPITALITY FEEBLE. FAL SEHOOD. HONE STY. RELIGIOUS 



BELIEF. VOLATILITY. MARRIAGES. WRESTLING FOR A 



WIFE. — DOGS. MOOSE-HUNTING. PUBLIC OPINION THE ONLY 



RULE OF CONDUCT. CHIEFS. — INTRODUCTION OF CHRISTI- 

 ANITY. HORSES. HOUSES. DAWNINGS OF CIVILISATION. 



MEMBERS OF THE 'TINNE PEOPLE WEST OF THE ROCKY 

 MOUNTAINS. — SOUTHERN ATHABASCANS. 



'Tinne or 'Dtinnbj Athabascans, or Chepewyans. 

 Under these national appellations I have to speak 

 of a people whose southern border is the Churchill 

 River, or the Missinipi, as it is termed by the 

 Eythinyuwuk, to whom it is also a boundary line. 

 Every where, in the country lying east of the 



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