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endure torture.^ The Pacific Coast tribes made them bathe in cold 
water daily, winter and summer alike, and whipped them with cedar 
boughs when they emerged. Among the Sarcee on the plains, the 
elderly man who supervised tlieir training kept a bathing hole open 
for them all winter or made them roll naked in the snow; and when 
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'J'eiit, of and riislios, foe tlie socliision of an Interior 
Salisli adoleseeiit K>il. (I^hoto hi/ James Teii.) 
the tribe moved camp lie sometimes held them back for two or three 
hours and forced them to race tlie whole distance to the new settle- 
ment.- The Indians and Eskimo in northern Canada brought up their 
children less rigorously, but in that region the unaviudable hardships 
of life were so numerous tliat deliberate increase of them might have 
proved intolerable. Girls naturally escaped most of this physical 
training but received thorough instruction in all domestic duties. 
1 “Jesnit Relations,” vol, xxxviii, p. 259. 
2 The best runners bceanie scouts in later j'cars. 
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