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and wrapped in birch—rind, was enclosed in a kind of box on the ground. The box was made of small square posts, laid on each other, horizontally, and notched at the corners to make them meet close. It was about four feet by three, and two and a half feet deep, and well lined with birch-rind, to exclude the weather from the inside. The body lay on its right side.

V “ A fourth, and the most common mode of burying among these people, has been to wrap the body in birch-rind, and cover it over with a heap of stones, on the surface of the earth, in some retired spot. Sometimes the body thus wrapped up is put a foot or two under the surface, and the spot covered with stones. In one place, where the ground was sandy and soft, they appeared to have been buried deeper, and no stones placed over the graves.

“ These people appear to have always shown great respect for their dead ; and the most remarkable remains of them, commonly observed by Europeans at the sea-coast, are their burying—places. These are at particular chosen spots ; and it is well known that they have been in the habit of bringing their dead from a distance to them. ‘Vith their women they bring only their clothes. L

“ On the north side of the lake, opposite the river Exploits, are the extremities of two deer fences, about half a mile apart, Where they lead to the water. It is understood that they diverge many miles in a north- Westerly direction. The Red Indians make these to lead the deer to the lake, during the periodical