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use of iron. Prior to that date the only means was doubtless the trap or shooting them with the bow and arrow. At certain seasons of the year in the spring the accumulation of fish in obstructed places is such that they can be caught in the hand. an indian standing in the stream could literally pick up all the fish he needed and many more.

   When a fish is captured and taken to the wigwam it is put hole and undressed into a pot or kettle and boiled and eatn. every thing except the bones and scales and fins.  a fried or brilled fish the indian never dreampt of and in many cases fish are and have from time immemorial been eatn raw by this savage nation.  
  The Ojbway indians eat te raw flesh of the deer and moose.  At Lake Minnboushish in Minnesota in a.D. 1891 the writer saw the Ojibway eatting the raw flesh of a freshly killed moose and the children cracking and gnawing the marrow bones.   The Ojibway so rar as we know is the only indian race addicted to eating human flesh but they tell within recent times did do so. and it is possible that even at this date in the more distant districts in extreme situations it may be resorted to.   It is said that within the century a family in great destitution living in the north were reduced to such strayghts that the mother killed her son a boy sixteen years of age and the father and she ate him.  She decoyed the boy into putting his head in her lap for the purpose of searching for vermin and while in that attitude poured molten lead into his ear and so killed him.  We have known of instances of cruelty practices among the indian upon their enemies and will have ocason to relate some of them but there are few cases on record to equal this.