Rod and gun . ually falling prey to tuberculosis,while one case of measles in a tepee has l.\ THE LAND OF THE MOOSE BIRD been known to result in the death of allliving in the village- During our stay we learned of an out-lawed Indian, who was suspected of hav-ing killed his wife, and Iiis skulking formwas pointed out to us as he made off intothe bush at our approach. \\ith a sus-picious story of Iier sickness and deathhe had travelled one hundred miles dur-ing the summer to woo and win a newhelpmate from the tribe at English River,but the maiden Crees were not suscep- of overcoming the influen
Rod and gun . ually falling prey to tuberculosis,while one case of measles in a tepee has l.\ THE LAND OF THE MOOSE BIRD been known to result in the death of allliving in the village- During our stay we learned of an out-lawed Indian, who was suspected of hav-ing killed his wife, and Iiis skulking formwas pointed out to us as he made off intothe bush at our approach. \\ith a sus-picious story of Iier sickness and deathhe had travelled one hundred miles dur-ing the summer to woo and win a newhelpmate from the tribe at English River,but the maiden Crees were not suscep- of overcoming the influence of an evilspirit which was keeping a young womansick in her tepee. A great degree of con-fidence is necessary in order to make thiskind of medical treatment thoroughly ef-ficacious. We declined to allow the Factor to giveup his own bed, and after passing thenight comfortably on the floor of hishouse we carried with us from the Postthe next day letters from Etchenery forFort .\lbanv and Montreal and his God-. Tho Fierco Abitibi. tibJe to the charms of one with such ablot on his escutcheon. Our attention was attracted at sun-down b3 the sound of a tom-tom beatingamong the tepees and hastening withoittwe observed Lemaguish, the Trout, alocal conjurer, cavorting among the tentsattired in his underwear and a beaver hatof the vintage of 1840, the crown ofwhich was adorned with several eaglefeathers. The medicine man was per-forming his gymnastics for the purpose speed from the river bank for Ihe jour-ney. Where rolls the now on we felt that the day isas long as you can go without we were to learn the foolishnessof accepting distances as given in themileage of the North. .Always the riverwidened and deepened, and tliere came aday when the windings of the EnglishRiver brought us to that place long antici-pated, where the Father of Waters
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