jujube. It is sometimes made into loaves of various dimensions. It is excellent, especially when boiled with meat; if kept dry, it can be preserved a long time.
As soon as their provisions are exhausted the L scour the plains, forests, and mountains in goes
If they are unsuccessful in the chase, their hunger becomes so extreme that they are reduced to subsist on moss, which more abundant than the camas. It is a parasite of the e, a tree common in these latitudes, and hangs from its hs in great quantities; it appears more suitable for mattresses than for the sustenance of human life. When they have procured a great quantity, they pick out all heterogeneous substance, and prepare it as they do the camas ; it becomes compact, and is, in my opinion, a most miserable food, which in a brief space reduces those who live on it pitiable state of emaciation.
Such are the Arcs-A-plats. They know neither industry, art, nor science; the words mine and thane are scarcely known among them. They enjoy in common the means of existence spontaneously granted them by nature; and as they are strangely improvident, they often pass from the greatest abundance to extreme scarcity. They feast well one day, and the following is passed in total abstinence. The two extremes are equally pernicious. Their cadaverous figure sufficiently demonstrates what I here advance.
I arrived among the Arcs-A-plats in time to witness the grand fish festival, which is yearly celebrated; the men only have the privilege of assisting thereat. Around a fire fifty feet long, partially overlaid with stones of the size of a turkey's egg, eighty men range themsch'"; each man is provided with an osier vessel, cementeil with gum and filled with waterand fish. The hall where this extraordinary feast is celebrated is constructed of rush mats, and has three apertures, one at either extremity for the enhance of guests; the middle one serves for transporting the fish. All preparations being completed, and each man at his post, the chief, after a short harangue of encouragement to his people. fin-