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worthy as the other. Generally speaking, neither the men 

 nor the women are good to look upon ; but of course there 

 are exceptions to every rule, and I think the exceptions in 

 this case are more often Cree. The half-breeds are gener- 

 ally more agreeable to the eye ; some of the women are 

 even good-looking; and one of them, a daughter of Mi- 

 chael Manderville, the interpreter at Great Slave Lake, has 

 excellent features, a sweet expression, and is quite the 

 belle of the north country, though the wives of Spencer 

 and of Chipewyan Francois press her very closely for the 

 honor. 



As to philological differences, they are too intricate to 

 understand without long study, and too many for exploita- 

 tion here. It will answer our purpose to know that the 

 Cree nation is one of the largest of the Lenni-Lennappe 

 family, itself the most widely distributed of the three 

 great divisions Floridean, Iroquois, and Lenni-Lennappe. 



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The Cree is really a plains Indian, and as such superior 

 to the few of the family in the Northland who are called 

 Wood Cree. The Tene, or Montagnaise, is the great nation 

 which spreads between the Rocky Mountains and Hudson's 



