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hoot-dinneh, or Sheep Indians. They in- 

 habit the Rocky Mountains near the sources 

 of the Dawhoot-dinneh River, which flows 

 into Mackenzie's, and are but little known 

 to the traders. Some of them have visited 

 Fort Good-Hope. A report of their being 

 cannibals may have originated in an imper- 

 fect knowledge of them. 



Some distance to the southward of this 

 people are the Rocky Mountain Indians, a 

 small tribe which musters about forty men 

 and boys capable of pursuing the chase. 

 They differ but little from the next we are 

 about to mention, the E dchawtawhoot-dinneh, 

 Strong-bow, Beaver, or Thick-wood In- 

 dians, who frequent the Riviere aux Liards, 

 or south branch of Mackenzie's River. The 

 Strong-bows resemble the Dog-ribs some- 

 what in their disposition; but when they 

 meet they assume a considerable degree of 

 superiority over the latter, who meekly sub- 

 mit to the haughtiness of their neighbours. 

 Until the year 1813, when a small party of 

 them, from some unfortunate provocation, 

 destroyed Fort Nelson on the Riviere aux 



