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riers, and pass a part of their time with them, at 

 their villages. They have, also, adopted many of 

 the customs of the Carriers, one of which is, to 

 burn their dead ; whereas, while they resided 

 on the other side of the Mountain, they were ac- 

 customed to bury them in the earth. The 

 Sicaunies are not an ingenious people ; and I 

 know of nothing which they manufacture, ex- 

 cepting a few ill wrought bows and arrows, wood- 

 en dishes*. &c 



There is a tribe of Indians not far from the 

 Columbia River, who are called Flat-Heads. By 

 fixing boards upon the heads of their children, they 

 compress them in such a mariner as to cause them 

 to assume the form of a wedge. Another tribe 

 in New Caledonia, denominated Nate-ote-tains, 

 pierce a hole through the under lips of their 

 daughters, into which they insert a piece of wood, 

 in the shape of the wheel of a pulley ) and as the 

 girls grow up, this wheel is enlarged, so that a 

 woman of thirty years of age, will have one near- 

 ly as large as a dollar. This they consider, adds 

 much to their beauty ; but these wheels are cer- 

 tainly very inconvenient, and to us, they appear 

 very uncouth and disagreeable* 



