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memory of their departed friends, by a long period of mourning, cut-
ting off their hair, and never making ufe of the property of the deceafed.
Nay, they frequently deftroy or facrifice their own, as a token of regret
and forrow.

If there be any people who, from the barren ftate of their country,
might be fuppofed to be cannibals by nature, thefe people, from the
difficulty they, at times, experience in procuring food, might be liable
to that imputation. But, in all my knowledge of them, I never was ac-
quainted with one inftance of that difpofition; nor among all the natives
which I met with in a route of five thoufand miles, did I fee or hear of
an example of cannibalifm, but fuch as arofe from that irrefiftible ne-
ceffity, which has been known to impel even the moft civilifed people
to eat each other.

Example of the Chepewyan Tongue.

Man - - - Dinnie.

Woman - - Chequois.

Young man - - Quelaquis.
Young woman - - Quelaquis chequoi.
My fon wee - Zi azay.

My daughter - - Zi lengai.

My hufband ——- - Zi dinnie,

My wife - - Zi zayunai.

My brother - - Zi raing.

My father - - Zi tah.

My mother - - Zi nah.

My grandfather - > Zi wnat

Me or my > - See,

I - - - Ne.

You - - - Nun

They - - - Be. -

Head > - - Edthie,

i ™ Hand