154 IN THE ACADIAN LAND. 



bows and arrows, and moccasins and blankets, 

 and now cling to the outskirts of the white man's 

 towns and villages, living for the most part in 

 huts, and using their mechanical aptitude in 

 coopering, canoe-building and basket-making. 

 They act as guides to hunters and fishermen, 

 and in these various ways, with a little plant- 

 ing, manage to live in a manner not well calcu- 

 lated to make the best of them. They are a 

 quiet, orderly people, very hospitable and unself- 

 ish with one another. 



The Indian family on the Molega Road con- 

 sists of a widow, " Kate Jeremy, '" and her mar- 

 ried son and child, and an unmarried son. They 

 live in a snug, clean cottage, have quite a farm, 

 keep oxen and a horse, are very industrious, 

 sober people. Even with them the old ingrained 

 tendencies and dispositions crop out in their 

 canoe-building, moose-hunting and fishing oc- 

 cupations that demand some of their time. 



What the future of this tribe will be it is diffi- 

 cult to tell Avith certainty ; but one may be sure 

 that they will not come into close competition 

 with the whites in any trade or business ; most 

 probable that they will long continue to exist 

 as a separate people, retaining their language 

 but losing their peculiar customs. They are not 

 long-lived, and a large proportion of them die 



