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Inasmuch 



Tukudh 



Lodges 



Eager for In 

 struction 



Tukudh Food 



soubriquet of the Loucheux or Squint-eyed, for 

 they are not really affected with squint. 



&quot;The Tukudh make their tents in the shape of 

 a beehive, with bent poles for the frame, and the 

 tent covering is formed of deer -skins with the 

 hair on and turned inside, the skins being softened 

 by scraping. Their camps become thus nearly 

 as warm as a log house and quite comfortable. 

 Their dress in winter consists also of deer-skins 

 with the hair on, and in cold weather the hair 

 is turned inside. Their country lies mostly 

 north of the Arctic Circle, but these deer-skin 

 dresses are almost impervious to cold. 



&quot;These Indians receive instruction with avidity, 

 whether in religion or other subjects ; and they 

 have taught one another to read the Gospels 

 printed in their own language, though the words 

 are of forbidding length. They had some 

 national dances and songs of their own, and were 

 fond of making harangues at the feasts, which it 

 was their custom to make for one another. On 

 such occasions a distribution of property took 

 place somewhat as is usual with the tribes on the 

 Pacific Coast. Before Christianity was intro 

 duced among this tribe they were much under the 

 power of their medicine men or conjurors, who 

 deceived them with their charms, and sometimes 

 even frightened them to death. 



&quot;The food of the Tukudh Indians is almost ex 

 clusively the reindeer, with salmon taken in the 

 Youcon River. The deer are mostly killed by 

 being driven into grounds of enclosures hedged 



