LONG LAKE INDIANS. 261 



from the line of railway and exterminated most 

 of the fur-bearing animals. Instead of, as their 

 forefathers, getting a good supply of all neces- 

 sary articles to assure them of comfort for a 

 year, these, their sons and grandsons, can get 

 no one to risk advancing them. They live prin- 

 cipally, now, on fish and when they do succeed 

 in killing a skin, the most likely thing to hap- 

 pen is, they will travel many miles to barter it 

 for whiskey. 



This is one of the results of railways and 

 civilization. I can say with the late lamented 

 Ouster "The good Indians are dead." 



