. Peter Parley's kaleidoscope : or, Parlor pleasure book : consisting of gleanings from many fields of the curious, the beautiful, and the wonderful . s peculiar as their country. They are short, stout,and swarthy, with big heads, flat, broad faces, prominent cheek-bones, thin lips, lank black hair, and eyes deep sunk in the are honest, frank and hospitable. Their chief employmentsare hunting and fishing, agriculture being held in little abodes are miserable filthy huts, sunk deep in the groundduring winter, to ward off the intense cold, and raised on polesduring the su
. Peter Parley's kaleidoscope : or, Parlor pleasure book : consisting of gleanings from many fields of the curious, the beautiful, and the wonderful . s peculiar as their country. They are short, stout,and swarthy, with big heads, flat, broad faces, prominent cheek-bones, thin lips, lank black hair, and eyes deep sunk in the are honest, frank and hospitable. Their chief employmentsare hunting and fishing, agriculture being held in little abodes are miserable filthy huts, sunk deep in the groundduring winter, to ward off the intense cold, and raised on polesduring the summer to facilitate the curing of fish, which are hungup on lines to dry. In traveling, they use dogs, of which theyhave an intelligent and hardy breed, instead of horses ; four, sixor eight of these animals being hitched to a sledge, in which therider sits sideways, and which they drag cheerily over the are constantly stimulated by the driver throwing at them astick, which he skillfully catches as the sledge advances. Dogsare an essential part of the property of these people, every manhaving as many as four, and some as many as twenty. THE BLUE JAY (HIS elegant bird, so happily and humorously described byWilson, is peculiar to North America. It is distinguishedas a kind of beau among the feathered .tenants of ourwoods, by the brilliancy of his dress, and like most other coxcombs, [460]
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