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fire-arms, hatchets, and numerous other articles, as well as too 

 often for the pernicious fire-water, to obtain even small quan- 

 tities of which they will frequently dispose of the skins 

 which it has cost them many weeks to obtain with much 

 hardship and danger. These Wood Indians are peaceably 

 disposed, and can always escape the attacks of their enemies 

 of the prairies by retreating among their forest or lake 



INDIANS SPEAKING FISH. 



fastnesses. They obtain their game by various devices, some- 

 times using traps of ingenious construction, or shooting the 

 creatures with bows and arrows, and of later years with fire- 

 arms. They spear the fish which abound in their waters, or 

 catch them with scoop and other nets. Although their ordi- 

 nary wigwams are of the shape already described, some are con- 

 siderably larger, somewhat of a bee-hive form, covered thickly 



