56 JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 



dence in this land, their ancestors were 

 visited by a man who healed the sick, 

 raised the dead, and performed many other 

 miracles, enjoining them at the same time 

 to lead good lives, and not to eat of the 

 entrails of animals, nor to use the brains 

 for dressing skins until after the third day ; 

 and never to leave the skulls of deer upon 

 the ground within the reach of dogs and 

 wolves, but to hang them carefully upon 

 trees. No one knew from whence this good 

 man came, or whither he went. They were 

 driven from that land by the rising of the 

 waters, and following the tracks of animals 

 on the sea-shore they directed their course 

 to the northward. At length they came to 

 a strait, which they crossed upon a raft, but 

 the sea has since frozen, and they have 

 never been able to return. These traditions 

 are unknown to the Chipewyans. 



The number of men and boys of the 

 Strong-bow nation who are capable of hunt- 

 ing may amount to seventy. 



There are some other tribes who also 

 speak dialects of the Chipewyan, upon the 



