ss, my grandfather.

[21] That part of the intestines of a fish, which by its
expansion from air in the first stage of decomposition, causes
the body to rise and float. The expression here means float.

[22] The Alcedo or Kingfisher.

[23] This bird has a white spot on the breast, and a tufted head.

[24] Shau-go-dai-a, _i.e._, a Coward.

[25] The war-cry.

[26] A burrow.

[27] Diminutive form, plural number, of the noun Moez.

[28] The dress of the females in the Odjibwa nation, consists of
sleeves, open on the inner side of the arm from the elbow up, and
terminating in large square folds, falling from the shoulders,
which are tied at the back of the neck with ribbon or binding.
The sleeves are separately made, and not attached to the breast
garment, which consists of square folds of cloth, ornamented and
sustained by shoulder straps. To untie the sleeves or armlets, as
is here described, is therefore to expose the shoulders, but not
the back--a simple device, quickly accomplished, by which the
magician could readily exercise his art almost imperceptibly to
the object.

[29] Stop! stop!

[30] It is difficult to throw into the English pronoun the whole
of the meaning of the Indian. Pronouns in this language being,
like other parts of speech, transitive; they are at once
indicative both of the actor, personal, and relative, and the
nature of the object, or subject of the action, or relation.
This, and that, are not used in the elementary form these
pronouns invariably possess in the English. Inflections are put
to them indicating the class of natural objects to which they
refer. A noun masculine or feminine, requiring an animate
pronoun, a noun inanimate, a pronoun inanimate.

PAUP-PUK-KEEWISS.

The vernal equinox in the north, generally takes place while the ground
is covered with snow, and winter still wears a polar aspect. Storms of
wind and light drifting snow, expressively called _poudre_ by the
French, and peewun by the Indians, fill the atmosphere, and render it
impossible to distinguish objects at a short distance. The fine powdery
flakes of snow are driven into the smallest crannies of buildings and
fixtures, and seem to be endowed with a subtle power of insinuation,
which renders northern joinerwork but a