348 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
and also a figure of a bear with four crosses 7 means 40 bears, and k 
shows a figure of bear with one cross which means 10 bears, and also a 
sable 1 with five crosses means 50 sables. If he wish to inform him 
he is in poor luck and hungry, he marked a figure of an Indian with a 
pot on one hand, the pot upside down; this means hunger. A figure 
of an Indian in lying position means sickness. 
‘Fig. 457 was also incised on birch bark by Sapiel Selmo and de- 
seribed by him. 
Two Indian hunters follow the river to hunt. They go together as 
far as the river’s forks and then separate. One went to the river ec. 
The other follows river e and kills a moose. They both build their 
winter wigwams. 
Fig. 456,—Passamaquoddy wikhegan. 
Indian } went to hunt and found a bear’s den under the foot of a big 
tree. He attempted to stab the bear, but missed the vital part. The 
bear got hold of him, bit him severely, and mortally wounded him. He 
went to his wigwam hf and thinks he is going to die, so he makes his 
mark or wikhegan on a bireh-bark. He makes notches j on the bark 
to mean his tracks and also marks a tree as in f and also a bear as in g. 
His friend d came to visit him and found him lying dead in his wigwam, 
and also found the marks on the piece of birch-bark, which he read and 
knew at once his partner was killed by the bear, and he followed his 
bear tracks, and he also found the bear dead. 
a. Mainriver. 0b. One of the Indians who goes up ec, branch of river. 
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