the widow can marry again; but, as may be readily supposed, the number of those who hazard a second marriage is very small.
Coeur D'Alène Hunting. 7
The Indians watch for the proper time to go all together for a hunt or "surround" of deer. They wait until the mountains are covered with three to five feet of snow and 6e deer have been driven down to the valleys, where they pass the winter, feeding on moss off the trees, the tenderer branches of the underbrush and shoots of the herbs and plants.
This happened soon after the feasts of Christmas [18581, and all our hunters started out, taking only a few mats made of rushes to shelter them against bad weather and the nocturnal cold, and also blankets or buffalo skins to wrap themselves in.
They choose by preference the neighborhood of some lake or river which is not yet frozen over; and they determine the extent of the surround, according to the number of hunters of which the band is composed. A huntingchief is chosen, and all his orders are thereafter executed promptly and punctually. On both ends of their line they light fires, some distance apart, which they feed with old garments and worn-out moccasins. The hunters are now formed in a long curved line, something like a half-moon. At a given signal, they utter the hunting-cry and move for
ward. The frightened deer rush to right and left to escape. As soon as they smell the smoke of the fires, they turn and
run back. Having the fires on both sides of them and the hunters in their rear, they dash toward the lake, and soon they are so closely pressed that they jump into the water, as
the only refuge left them. Then everything is easy for the hunters: they let the animals get away from the shore, then
7 From the French of the third Belgian edition, vol. IV. Dated St. Louis, April 3, 1861.