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The government can give means, but not the man. Unfortunately, 

 we have not their confidence, and the unhappy attempt of convert- 

 ing them from their ancient faith a few years since, ended in 

 widening the breach. This mission belonars to the church that won 

 them from paganism. The late Abbe Segoigne is an instance of 

 what good may be done, and how honored he was by the highest 

 authorities and gentlemen of his time ; and no doubt should there 

 now arise a gentleman of his profession, who made these two 

 thousand poor souls his special mission, teaching them the language, 

 the habits and manners of our own life, and do it as we unhappily 

 cannot, not disturbing their faith ; and if in this he devoted him- 

 self, his life, his talents azid labour, the government would soon put 

 every means in his power, and men of all parties would honour him, — 

 the government ridding itself of a troublesome thing, and all will- 

 ing patiently to wait till the Indian stood side by side us as equal 

 man, before he was burdened with the discussion of civil and 

 religious liberties. 



Art. V. — Notes on the Cariboo. By Robert Morrow, Esq. 



(Read before the Institute, April 9th, 1877.) 



This paper is the consequence of the following quotation from 

 the " Fauna Boreali- Americana " of Sir John Richardson, pages 250 

 and 251 : — Mr. Hutchins " mentions that the buck (Cariboo) has 

 a peculiar bag or cist in the lower part of the neck, about the 

 bigness of a crown-piece, and filled with fine flaxen hair, neatly coiled 

 round to the thickness of an inch. There is an opening through 

 the skin, near the head, leading to the cist, but Mr. Hutchins doe 8 

 not offer a conjecture as to its uses in the economy of the 

 animal. Camper found a membranous cist in the Reindeer, above 

 the thyroid cartilage, and opening into the larynx, but I have met 

 with no account of a cist with a duct opening externally like that 

 described by Mr. Hutchins, and unfortunately, I was not aware of 



