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same elevation another "big smoke" was in 

 sight. The two fires were said to be signals 

 from some Indian hunters to their squaws 

 that they had killed a moose; or, to be exact, 

 the top fire was to signal them to come — both 

 they and the children — as a moose had been 

 killed; the lower one was built close to the 

 dead animal, so as to lead them directly to the 

 carcass. 



When Indian braves have killed an animal, 

 they feel that they have done their work, and 

 depend upon the squaws to dress and cut up 

 the meat, to cure it as w^ell, and then to carry 

 it to their cache and there deposit it. We 

 were advised that the squaws are very partic- 

 ular to empty the stomach of the dead animal 

 quickly of its contents. Then, after washing 

 it out thoroughly so that it is absolutely clean, 

 they catch all of the blood that they can, put 

 it into the empty stomach, and thus transport 

 it to their camp. Blood puddings are made 

 out of it, and many of them drink the blood 

 when it is luke warm. 



As the wind was blowing a gale when the 

 fires were started, it was not long before they 

 spread into a fierce conflagration, which 

 swept everything before it. The smoke of 

 this sweeping fiery furnace was seen for two 



