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with felled trees. The salmon are taken in 

 weirs or traps made with willows in the bend of 

 the river. The salmon are dried in the sun or 

 over the camp fire for winter store. The flesh 

 of the reindeer is also dried and sometimes pound 

 ed for preservation. The reindeer tongues are 

 considered the most delicate part. In summer 

 time the reindeer migrate to the coast to escape 

 among the sea-breezes of the barren grounds 

 from the flies and mosquitoes which torment them 

 at that season in the woods. In winter the deer 

 return to the more southern forests to avoid the 

 too-piercing cold and exposure of the extreme 

 north. 



&quot;The Tukudh Indians do not make any canoes, 

 but travel on the rivers in summer mostly on 

 rafts, which they construct and manage with a 

 good deal of skill. Their snow-shoes are dis 

 tinguished from those of the Tenni tribe by being 

 round instead of pointed in front.&quot; 



From the hour of his arrival at Fort Simpson, visit to sick 

 on Christmas Eve, 1863, to the hour of his death Indian 

 on the evening of Saturday, June 9th, 1906, 

 William Carpenter Bompas gave himself body and 

 soul to the cause of the Indians of the Tenni and 

 Tukudh, not forgetting, as will be told in due 

 course the Eskimo of the Arctic Coast. Preaching 

 on one of his rare visits, in Holy Trinity 

 Church, Winnipeg, he told of a visit to one sick 

 Indian &quot;which took five weeks of time and in 

 volved a walk of 320 miles.&quot; It seems both 

 superfluous and incongruous, in connection with 



