A sullen quiet sets in; the hanutsh recede from each other, and only such as are very intimate venture to interchange opinions, and even they only with the utmost caution.

For any event that concerns the welfare of the community is, in the mind of the aborigine, intimately connected with the doings of Those Above.

And if the Shiuana were to hear an irrelevant or unpleasant utterance on the part of their children, things might go wrong.

There is, beside, the barrier between clan and clan,--the mistrust which one connection feels always more or less strongly toward the others.

Instead of the excitement and display of passion that too often accompany the preliminaries of great events in civilized communities, and which too often also unduly precipitate them, among the Indians there is reticence.