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19 all domestic labours and drudgery; but there is a small number of men who assist their wives in raising corn. When about to leave their encampment, if they have more corn than they can conveniently carry, it is put in cache. ( I saw several old caches. Which had been deprived of their contents.) During the summer months, whilst the women are toiling in the cultivation of small patches of corn, etc. the men spend the time in idleness and ball playing.

Large hunting parties move from five to ten miles a day. Some have horses; but most of them carry their children, tent poles, provisions, etc., on their backs. When the party stop for the night, the men immediately start in hunting excursions, leaving the labour of forming an encampment to the women. When the weather is cold, great labour and privations are endured in removing snow for tents, cutting and carrying tent poles, collecting wood for fuel, - dead grass from under the snow to lie on. In such cases, children often suffer greatly, sometimes lying an hour or two on the snow, until every thing is prepared for reception; - and in crossing streams when the ice is not sufficiently