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moose or deer-skin, trimmed more or less with 

 beads or dyed porcupine quills, except so far as 

 they may be able to purchase clothing of European 

 manufacture 



&quot;The Tenni Tribes are not quick at learning 

 when adults, but if children are taken from the Quallt] 

 tents and placed at school along with the children 

 of Europeans the Indian children may keep pace 

 with the others in their learning or even out 

 strip them. They are also docile and easily 

 managed. 



&quot;The whole of the Tenni race seem to be of a 

 sickly habit, and rather dwindling in numbers. 

 They do not seem to be much addicted to ardent 

 spirits, nor are these now supplied to them; but 

 they have an inveterate propensity to gamble. 

 Though almost wholly free from crimes of vio 

 lence, and not much inclined to thieve, yet 

 heathen habits of impurity cling, alas, still too 

 closely to them, and they exhibit the usual Indian 

 deficiency in a want of stability and firmness of 

 character. This Indian race seems to have been 

 free from idolatry before the arrival of Europeans 

 among them, and they had some knowledge of a 

 good and evil spirit, and of rewards and punish 

 ments after death. 



&quot;The Tukudh race are rather more sharp fea- Tukudh 

 tured and more lively and intelligent, as well as ltle8 

 more cordial and affectionate than the Tenni. 

 Their eyes are inclined to be small and pointed, 

 rather as the Chinese. From this circumstance, 

 probably, they obtained from the French the 



