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them as great rogues. They were going to the Shaste country to 

 trade for blankets, powder and ball, together with trinkets and beads, 

 in exchange for their horses and beaver-skins. 



The Company, and the settlers of the Willamette, refuse to trade 

 either powder or ball in this country, and it is but a short time since 

 the Indians have been able to obtain any. The reason assigned by 

 the Company and residents for this restriction is, that the natives 

 become quarrelsome and turbulent when they are provided with fire- 

 arms. On these trips they are accompanied by about thirty warriors, 

 well armed. 



The men are usually clothed in blanket coats; but, notwithstanding 

 this slight approximation to civilized habits, they have the air of the 

 Indian, strongly marked, about them. 



MALE COSTUME. 



The number of Indians now collected was two hundred. The 

 women were employed in drying salmon, and the cammass-root. 

 Some of them are employed in cooking, while others are engaged 

 in dressing skins. 



The mode of removing the hair from the skins, is with a round and 

 broad chisel, fixed on a handle, like an adze : the skin, while yet 

 green, is laid on a log or board, and the hair chopped off". The 

 smoking process differs from that already described, at the Cowlitz. 

 A large hole is dug in the ground, in which a fire is made ; the 



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