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the manuscript voyage of the Eliza, Captain Rowan, to the Northwest 

 coast in 1799 determines definitely, not only that the blood-thirsty sav- 

 ages of Queen Charlotte Islands and the adjacent mainland decapitated 

 and scalped their victims, but that these trophies were very highly 

 valued among themselves and sold for extraordinary prices, judged by 

 either Indian or civilized standards. Thus Captain Rowan endeavored 

 to recover the scalps of several whites murdered by the Queen Char- 

 lotte Islanders, and found they had been sold to a Naas chief for sea- 

 otter skins to the value of several thousand dollars. So far as is 

 known, the native tribes bordering on these, northward and eastward, 

 knew nothing of such practices, and never adopted this particular bar- 

 barity. Nor are masks in use among them (excluding the coast tribes), 

 except where they have been visibly adopted in rare instances of imi- 

 tation. 



I have not had time to investigate the relations to this practice of 

 the tribes of the Antilles, and indeed have been able to hardly more 

 than touch upon the more salient features of the whole topic. 

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