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the property of the deceased. Nay, they frequently destroy 

 or sacrifice their own, as a token of regret and sorrow. 



If there be any people who, from the barren state of their 

 country, might be supposed to be cannibals by nature, these 

 people, from the difficulty they, at times, experience in 

 procuring food, might be liable to that imputation. But, 

 in all my knowledge of them, I never was acquainted with 

 one instance of that disposition ; nor among all the natives 

 which I met with in a route of five thousand miles, did I 

 see or hear of an example of cannibalism, but such as arose 

 from that irresistible necessity, which has been known to 

 impel even the most civilized people to eat each other. 



Example of the Chepewyan Tongue. 



Man 

 Woman 

 Young man 

 Young woman 

 My son 

 My daughter 

 My husband 

 My wife 

 My brother 

 My father - 

 My mother 

 My grandfather 

 Me, or my 

 I 



You - 

 They - 

 Head - 

 Hand 

 Leg - 

 Foot 



Dinnie. 



Chequois. 

 Quelaquis. 



Quelaquis chequoi. 



Zi azay. 

 Zi lengai. 

 Zi dinnie. 

 Zi zayunai. 

 Zi raing. 



Zi tah. 

 Zi nah. 

 Zi unai. 



See. 

 Ne. 

 Nun. 

 Be. 



Edthie. 

 Law. 

 Edthen. 

 Cuh. 



Teeth 

 Side 

 Belly 



Eyes 



Nackhay. 



Goo. 

 Kac-hey. 



Bin. 



