THE MONTAGNAIS INDIANS 
figures and bright, even handsome faces, most 
of them of medium height but some noticeably 
tall; old men with straggling moustaches and 
beards, and shrunken but still erect figures; 
women of all ages, the old, wrinkled and hag- 
like with dirty gray complexions, the young, 
clear-eyed and plump, their smooth, olive- 
brown skins tinged with rose on the cheeks, — 
attractive to look upon; young boys and girls 
and stolid papooses. The small slinking fox- 
like Indian dog, black and tan in colour, was 
everywhere, each one nervously anxious not to 
be left behind. Every family possessed a cat, 
either carried in arms, or harnessed and straining 
at the leash, or again following free like a dog, 
anxious not to get its feet wet on the beach, 
but evidently still more anxious to go with the 
crowd in the canoes. We were told that the 
fashion of cats is a recent acquisition by these 
Mountaineers, and the cats were treated most 
kindly as pets, in marked contrast to the treat- 
ment of the dogs, who lead, indeed, a dog’s life. 
The costumes were like those of their relatives 
at Les Isles des Corneilles, but some of the old 
men wore long skirt-like coats, and had their 
heads bundled up in red handkerchiefs, or 
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