&§ Asiatic Tribes by Major Mercer, R, A. 2A1 
FUNEREAL RITES. 
BARK UTENSILS 
& CANOES, &c. 
SNOW SHOES. 
MAPS. 
POSITION of MALES 
for Urinary Evacuations 
them at Amherstburg wearing these 
ornaments, and it struck me par- 
ticularly from their being pendant 
on the back, or sticking out be- 
hind, like those of the Chinese. 
We find almost every mode in use 
amongst the Siberians, &c. also a- 
mongst one or other of the Indian 
Tribes, viz. exposing on scaffold; 
wrapping up in bark; burying in shal- 
low graves covered by a bark roof, 
over which are suspended flags, pieces 
of silk, &c.—burning—enclosing in 
trees ; supending from the branches 
oftrees. Also the accompaniments 
of arms, utensils, food, &c. 
La Perouse found baskets of Bark 
exactly like those of our Indians, on 
the coast of Tartary.—The Tongusi 
use the Bark canoe, and La Perouse 
speaks of the rolls of Bark the inha- 
bitants of Lagalun carry with them, 
for covering their wigwams. 
La Perouse and Lisseps, both found 
the Snow shoe in Eastern Tartary & 
Kamtschatka., 
The Tact displayed by the Indians in 
delineating the features of a country, 
is found on the other Continent, and 
its M. Islands. La Perouse speaks 
particularly of the Inhabitants of 
Sagaleen as displaying great iatelli- 
gence of this sort. 
This Oriental Custom is prevalent 
; among the Lodians, I mean that of 
squatting 
