CHAPTER V.
Resources Of Lesser Slave Lake Region.
It was expected that the sergeant of the Mounted Police stationed at the Lake would have set out by boat on the 3rd for Athabasca Landing, taking with him the witnesses in the Weeghteko case--a case not common amongst the Lesser Slave Lake Indians, but which was said to be on the increase.

One Pahayo--"The Pheasant"-- had gone mad and threatened to kill and eat people.

Of course, this was attributed by his tribe to the Weeghteko, by which he was believed to be possessed, a cannibal spirit who inhabits the human heart in the form of a lump of ice, which must be got rid of by immersion of the victim in boiling water, or by pouring boiling fat down his throat.

This failing, they destroy the man-eater, rip him up to let out the evil spirit, cut off his head, and then pin his four quarters to the ground, all of which was done by his tribe in the case of Pahayo.

Napesosus--"The Little Man"-- struck the first blow, Moostoos followed, and the poor lunatic was soon dispatched.