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CHAPTER XIV.
Travel and Transportation.

Travelling in gencral 206. — Snow-shoes 208. — Snow-shoeing 210. — Ancient sledges 213.

— Modern sledges and sleighing 214. — Hauling 217. — Canoes and navigation 218. —
Wooden crafts 220.

CHAPTER XV.

Commerce.

Home transactions 222. — Intertribal commerce 223. — Aboriginal middlemen 225. —
Native currency 226. — The trading companies 228. — Trading with profit 229. — Modern
currency of the fur trade 231.

CHAPTER XVI.

Puberty Customs.

Menstruation and its .consequences in antiquity 233. — Jewish customs among the
Déné maidens 235. — Proofs 237. — Other puberty customs 238. — Among the Pacific and
Southern Dénés 241.

CHAPTER XVII.

Marriage.
Native ideals of female beauty 244. — Betrothing and courting 245. — Marriage in
the northwest 247. — Wrestling for a wife 249. — Other ways of contracting marriage 251.
— Celebration of marriage 252. — Restrictions to marriage 253. — Unholy gratifications 255.