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Updated: June 28, 2025
"They are very pretty. If they were not a present, I would give them to you, to make a jacket of them." "I wear them?" said she. "Not likely!" Nevertheless she had sufficient womanly curiosity to let her elder sister open the parcel; and then she took up the otter-skins one by one, and looked at them. "I don't think much of them," she said. The other bore this taunt patiently.
The houses of these people are similar to those of the Indians above, and their language is the same; their dress also, consisting of robes or skins of wolves, deer, elk, and wildcat, is made nearly after the same model; their hair is worn in plaits down each shoulder, and round their neck is put a strip of some skin with the tail of the animal hanging down over the breast; like the Indians above, they are fond of otter-skins, and give a great price for them.
On our arrival they gave us some fish, and we afterwards purchased wappatoo roots, fish, three dogs, and two otter-skins, for which we gave fish-hooks chiefly, that being an article which they are very anxious to obtain. "These people seemed to be of a different nation from those we had just passed: they were low in stature, ill-shaped, and all had their heads flattened.
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