Here, too, there was no reserve in giving the family name; it was given at once when asked for, and there was no shyness otherwise in demeanour.

There was a readiness, for example, to be photographed which was quite distinctive.

In this connection it may interest the reader to recall some of the names of girls given by the same race thousands of miles away in the East.

Take those recorded by Mrs.Jameson ["Winter Studies and Summer Rambles," 1835.] during her visit to Mrs.McMurray and the Schoolcrafts, on the Island of Mackinac, over seventy years ago: Oba baumwawa geezegoquay, "The Sounds which the stars make rushing through the skies"; Zaga see goquay, "Sunbeams breaking through a cloud"; Wahsagewanoquay, "Woman of the bright foam." The people so far apart, yet their home names so similarly figurative! The education of the Red Indian lies in his intimate contact with nature in all her phases--a good education truly, which serves him well.

But, awe-struck always by the mysterious beauty of the world around him, his mind reflects it instinctively in his Nature-worship and his system of names.
In speaking of the "Lakers" I refer, of course, to the primitive people of the region, and not to half-breed incomers from Manitoba or elsewhere.