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companied with a song. These people are 

 the dancing-masters of the country. The 

 Copper Indians have neither dance nor 

 music hut what they borrow from them. 

 On our first interview with Akaitcho, at 

 Fort Providence, he treated us, as has al- 

 ready been mentioned, with a representation 

 of the Dog-rib dance ; and Mr. T3ack, during 

 his winter journey, had an opportunity of 

 observing it performed by the Dog-ribs 

 themselves. 



The chief tribe of the Dog-rib nation, 

 termed Horn Mountain Indians, inhabit the 

 country betwixt Great Bear Lake and the 

 west end of Great Slave Lake. They 

 muster about two hundred men and boys 

 capable of pursuing the chase. Small de- 

 tachments of the nation frequent Marten 

 Lake, and hunt during the summer in the 

 neighbourhood of Fort Enterprise. Indeed 

 this part of the country was formerly ex- 

 clusively theirs, and most of the lakes and 

 remarkable hills bear the names which they 

 imposed upon them. As the Copper In- 

 dians generally pillage them of their women 

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