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Pioneers in Canada

CHAPTER XI
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These people had also made portable chests of cedar, in which they packed these cakes, as well as their salmon, both dried and roasted.

The only flesh they ate in addition to the salmon was that of the sea otter and the seal; except that one instance already mentioned of the young Indian who feasted on the flesh of the porcupine.
"Their faces are round, with high cheekbones, and their complexion between olive and copper.

They have small grey eyes with a tinge of red,...

their hair is of a dark-brown colour." The men wore their hair long, and either kept it well combed and hanging loose over the shoulders, or plaited it and bedaubed it with brown earth so as to make it quite impervious to the comb.

Those who adopted this fashion had to carry a bone bodkin about with them to ease the frequent irritation which arose from the excessive abundance of vermin in their hair.
The women, on the other hand, usually wore their hair short.


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