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the men and boys.—Manner of paffing their time, 
and method of killing deer in Summer with bows 
and arrows-—Their tents, dogs, fledges, &c.— 
Snow-fhoes.—-Their partiality to domeftic vermin. 
—Uimoft extent of the Northern Indian country.— 
Face of the country.—Species of fifb.—A peculiar 
kind of mofs ufeful for the fupport of man,—.Nor- 
thern Indian method of catching fifb, either with 
hooks or nets.—Ceremony obferved when two par- 
ties of thofe people meet.—Diverfions in common ufe. 
—A fingular diforder which attacks fome of thofe 
people.—T heir fuperftition with refpe to the death 
of their friends.—Ceremony obferved on thofe occafi= 
ons. —T heir ideas of the fir/t inhabitants of the world. 
— No formof religion among them.---Remarks on that 
circumftance.—The extreme mifery to which old age 
is expofed.—T heir opinion of the Aurora Borealis, 
&c.—Some account of Matonabbee, and his fervi- 
ces to his country, as well as to the Hudjon’s Bay 
company. | 
A. S to the perfons of the Northern Indians, 
they are in general above the middle fize ; 
_well-proportioned, ftrong, and robuft, but not 
corpulent. ‘They do not poffefs that aétivity of 
body, and livelinefs of difpofition, which are fo 
‘commonly met with among the other tribes of 
Indians who inhabit the Weft coait of Hudfon’s 
Bay. 
Their complexion is fomewhat of the copper 
-caft, inclining rather toward a dingy brown ; 
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