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consumed by atmospheric influences & vicissitudes. But they are usually taken down after a few days & buried. Those who die during the winter are not buried until the following spring. This is evidently owing to the northern latitude. Those who can, procure a white man to make a coffin; but when this not convenient (which is generally the case), they place strips of bark around the corpse, thus forming a nude coffin, The graves are quite shallow, and to protect the dead from wolves they fortify the grave with small stakes. At the time of interment, they make a feast and eat it at the place of burial. For the loss of friends, they cut off their hair, black their faces, and mourn for them with a loud and lamentable cry. Their wailings are continued, at intervals, for many days. They also lacerate their flesh with fragments of glass and flint, until they are covered with blood. Sometimes they thrust knives through the fleshly parts of their arms and legs, wounding themselves so severely as to faint from loss of blood. They say this is done to relieve their distress of mind - something like the counteraction from a blister. I suppose. - They invariable preserve a lock of hair from the head of a dead friend. On going to war, this lock is left where an enemy is killed. If such an opportunity