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IN THE LAND OF THE GREAT SPIRIT 129 



Two trackers — Kakikapo, a Cree, and Tiah, a Sioux 

 — an old half-breed who can talk a little French, to 

 cook and be camp-man generally, and a boy, Paupukhi, 

 who seemed to have no tribe, these are our following. 

 Kakikapo and Tiah ride each a pony, there are two 

 light wooden carts drawn by a pony apiece, and an 

 extra baggage pony or two for loading moose-heads, 

 and against emergencies. 



We cross a narrow arm of the lake, swimming 

 where we cannot wade, or rather floated over at the 

 ponies' tails. Here the Indians stop to examine their 

 nets. These lakes are full of white fish and pickerel-"?^ 

 and pike. The white fish * is considered in America 

 one of the very best fish they have. It has no qualities \ 

 as a sporting fish, but there is no doubt whatever that 

 as a form of food it has most remarkable properties. / 

 It seems to be the one form of fish-food upon which ( 

 human beings can live the whole year through in 

 perfect health. Unfortunately, the great Indian 

 harvest of this species is in autumn, at the spawning 

 time, just when the fish are at their worst as food. 

 Netted then and dried, it is kept for winter use. 

 This fish averages from three to four pounds in 

 weight. 



* Coregonus albus. 



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