Path Finding in the Kootenay Country, &c. 313 



wonderfully accomplished cache lifter, whose sharp scent and 

 great climbing powers, formidable strength, and general " cussed- 

 ness " few methods of either burying the valuables underground, 

 secreting under piles of heavy logs, or suspending from high 

 trees can withstand. 



Some of the northern coast tribes were, until comparatively 



SELF-INFLICTED TORTURE AT AN INDIAN SUN DANCE. 



"Making a Brave " by forcing wooden skewers through the muscles of the chest 

 and then suspending the man by them. 



recent times, cannibals, and I am told that one peculiar custom 

 has not died out to this day amongst the Milbank tribe. It is 

 that at a certain feast held in the autumn each sub-chief bites a 

 mouthful of flesh from the arm of those of his adult male followers 

 who have not yet been so distinguished. The flesh is chewed and 

 swallowed. 



