that an outward manifestation of surprise."_ A young friend, who was familiar with Indian character from frequent intercourse with them in his hunting expeditions, speaking of their apparent absence of curiosity, told me that, with a view to test it, he wound up a musical snuff-box, and placed it on a table in a room where several Indian hunters and their squaws were standing together, and narrowly watched their countenances, but they evinced no sort of surprise by look or gesture, remaining apathetically unmoved.

He retired to an adjoining room, where, unseen, he could notice what passed, and was amused at perceiving, that the instant they imagined themselves free from his surveillance, the whole party mustered round the mysterious toy like a parcel of bees, and appeared to be full of conjecture and amazement, but they did not choose to be entrapped into showing surprise.

This perfect command over the muscles of the face, and the glance of the eye, is one of the remarkable traits in the Indian character.

The expression of the Indian face, if I may use so paradoxical a term, consists in a want of expression--like the stillness of dark deep water, beneath which no object is visible.

APPENDIX M.
Page 332 .-- _"bracelets of porcupine quills cut in fine pieces and strung in fanciful patterns."_ The Indian method of drawing out patterns on the birch bark, is simply scratching the outline with some small-pointed instrument, Canadian thorn, a bodkin of bone, or a sharp nail.