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‘carried’ into the Nepisigiut. There spent the summer. On that river 
met a friend of my time; we camped there. 
“One time while I was away my friend had gone down the river by 
himself and had not left any wikhe’gan for me. I had planned to go off 
and left for him this wikhe’gan, to tell where I would be and how long 
gone. The wigwam at the lower left-hand corner showed the one used 
by us, with the river near it. The six notches over the door of the 
wigwam meant that I would be gone six days. The canoe and man 
Fia. 445.—Abnaki notice of direction. 
nearest to the wigwam referred to my friend, who had gone in the oppo- 
site direction to that Lintended to travel. Next to it I was represented 
in my own canoe, with rain falling, to show the day I started, which 
was very rainy. Then the canoe carried by me by a trail through woods 
shows the ‘carry’ to Nictaux lake, beside which is a very big mountain. 
I stayed at that lake for six days, counting the outgoing and returning. 
As I had put the wikhe’gan in the wigwam before I started, my friend 
on his return understood all about me, and, counting six from and in- 
