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Dr. Livingstone, it will be remembered, declares such nursing of 

 orphan infants by a masculine wet-nurse to be a well recognized 

 practise in some of the African localities he explored ; and the con- 

 firmation of so singular a physiological novelty among the Arctic 

 Esquimaux would be of no slight value. As, however, old Ogemaw- 

 wah Chack's nursling had long since achieved his weaning before 

 Paul Kane received his assurance of the fact, the most we can assume 

 is, that the Esquimaux have faith in such means of encountering one 

 of the most puzzling trials of a solitary widower. 



Among the landscape illustrations of the volume is the wood cut of 

 "Chimney Rock," as strange an illustration of the freaks of Nature 

 in some of her wilder geological escapades as is often to be met with. 

 and accompanying it is the following legend, which will furnish a fair 

 example of the pleasant manner in which the author's pen and pencil 

 sketches are combined : 



" As we approached the place where the "Walla Walla debouches into the Colum - 

 bia River, we came ia sight of two extraordinary rocks projecting from a high 

 steep cone or mound about TOO feet above the level of the river. These are called 

 by the Voyageurs the Chimney Rocks, and from their being visible from a great 

 distance, they are very serviceable as land marks. 



" The "Walla "Walla Indians call these the " Rocks of the Ki-use Girls," of which 

 they relate the following legend, which was told me by an Indian whilst I was 

 sketching this extraordinary scene. It must be borne in mind that all Indian tribes 

 select some animal to which they attribute supernatural, or, in the language of the 

 country, medicine powers : the whale, for instance, on the north-west coast ; the 

 Kee-yea, or war-eagle, on the east side of the Rocky Mountains, supposed to be 

 the maker of thunder ; and the wolf on the Columbia River. Now the great 

 Medicine Wolf of the Columbia River, according to the Walla- Walla tradition, 

 the most cunning and artful of all manitous, having heard that a great medicine 

 grasshopper was desolating the whole country which of right belonged to himself, 

 and was especially under his protection, immediately resolved to trace him out 

 and have a personal encounter with him. With this view, he proceeded down, 

 the banks of the river, and soon fell in with the object of his search. Each of 

 these formidable manitous thought it best to resort to stratagem to overcome his 

 opponent. Being afraid of each other's " medicine " powers, they accordingly 

 commenced by exchanging civilities, and then, with a view of terrifying each other 

 began boasting of their wonderful exploits, and the number they had killed and 

 eaten. The grasshopper said to the wolf that the best way to ascertain who had 

 devoured the largest nimibers would be to vomit up the contents of their respec- 

 tive stomachs. The grasshopper, in the violence of his exertions, naturally closed 

 his eyes, and the wolf, perceiving this, adroitly drew a great part of his opponent's 

 share over to his own side without being detected. The grasshopper, when he 

 perceived how much larger the pile before the wolf was than his own, gave up 



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