But the child died.

To preserve the body from the wolves it was placed upon a scaffold, and then later carried to the borders of a lake, on the border of which was the burial ground of the family.
"On our arrival there, which happened in the beginning of April, I did not fail to attend the funeral.

The grave was made of a large size, and the whole of the inside lined with birch bark.

On the bark was laid the body of the child, accompanied with an axe, a pair of snowshoes, a small kettle, several pairs of common shoes, its own strings of beads, and--because it was a girl--a carrying belt and a paddle.

The kettle was filled with meat.