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that their language strongly resembles thaj spok- 

 en by the Sicaunies ; and no doubt they former- 

 ly constituted a part of the same tribe, though 

 they now differ from them, in their manners and 

 customs. The Sicaunies bury, while the Tacul- 

 lies, burn their dead. 



Monday, 26. The corpse of a woman of this 

 place, who died on the 20th instant, was burned this 

 afternoon. While the ceremony was performing, 

 the Natives made a terrible sav age noise, by howl- 

 ing, crying, and a kind of singing. 



Saturday, December 29. Frazer's Lake; In 

 coming to this place, I passed through a country, 

 which is very rough, and thickly covered with tim- 

 ber, consisting of spruce, fir, poplar, aspin, birch, cy- 

 press, &c. We crossed one considerable moun- 

 tain, and several small lakes. 



This establishment is at the east end of Fra- 

 zer's Lake, which received its name from that of 

 the gentleman, who first built here, in 1806. At 

 the distance of about a mile from this, there runs 

 out of this lake, a considerable river, where the 

 Natives have a large village, and where they 

 take and dry salmon. This lake may be eighty 

 or ninety miles in circumference, and is well 

 supplied with white fish, trout, &c. 



Tuesday, January 1, 1311. This being the 

 first day of another year, our people have passed 



