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rill, 
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clothing, and able to carry eight or ten * ftone in 
Summer, or haula much greater weight in Wins 
ter. Thefe, and other fimilar accomplifhments, 
are all that are fought after, or expected, of a 
Northern Indian woman. As to their temper, it) 
is of little confequence; for the men have a won-— 
derful facility in making the moft ftubborn com- 
ply with as much alacrity as could poflibly be ex- 
pected from thofe of the mildeft and moft oblig- 
ing turn of mind’; fo that the only real difference 
is, the one obeys through fear, and the other com-. 
plies cheerfully from a willing mind; both know- 
ing that what is commanded muft be done. They’ 
are, in fact, all kept at a great diftance, and the: 
rank they hold in the opinion of the men cannot) 
be better exprefled or explained, than by obferv- 
ing the method of treating or ferving them at’ 
meals, which would appear very humiliating, to: 
an European woman, though cuftom makes it 7 
light on thofe whofe lot it is to bear it. It is ne- 
ceflary to obferve, that when the men kill any’ 
large beaft, the women are always fent to bring it! 
to the tent: when it is brought there, every opes. 
ration it undergoes, fuch as fplitting, drying, 
pounding, &c. is performed by the women. | 
When any thing is to be prepared for eating, it is 
the women who cook it; and when it is done,) 
the wives and daughters of the greateft Captains! 
in 
a 
* The ftone here meant is fourteen pounds. 
