called The Red Bear, or
_Duhk-pits-o-ho-shee_.

_Brian._ Duhk-pitch a--Duck pits--I cannot pronounce the word--why
that is worse to speak than any.

_Austin._ Hear me pronounce it then: _Duhk-pits-o-hoot-shee_. No; that
is not quite right, but very near it.

_Basil._ You must not go among the Crows yet, Austin; you cannot talk
well enough.

_Hunter._ Oh, there are much harder names among some of the tribes
than those I have mentioned; for instance there is
_Au-nah-kwet-to-hau-pay-o_, "the one sitting in the clouds;" and
_Eh-tohk-pay-she-pee-shah_, "the black mocassin;" and
_Kay-ee-qua-da-kum-ee-gish-kum_, "he who tries the ground with his
foot;" and _Mah-to-rah-rish-nee-eeh-ee-rah_, "the grizzly bear that
runs without fear."

_Brian._ Why these names are as long as from here to yonder. Set to
work, Austin! set to work! For, if there are many such names as these
among the Indians, you will have enough to do without going to a
buffalo hunt.

_Austin._ I never dreamed that there were such names as those in the
world.

_Basil._ Ay, you will have enough of them, Austin, if you go abroad.
You will never be able to learn them, do what you will. Give it up,
Austin; give it up at once.

Though Brian and Basil were very hard on Austin on their way home,
about the long names of the Indians, and the impossibility of his ever
being able to learn them by heart, Austin defended himself stoutly.
"Very likely," said he, "after all, they call these long names very
short, just as we do; Nat for Nathaniel, Kit for Christopher, and Elic
for Alexander."

[Illustration: Wigwams.]

CHAPTER IV.

It was not long before Austin, Brian, and Basil were again listening
to the interesting accounts given by their friend, the hunter; and it
would have been a difficult point to decide whether the listeners or
the narrator derived most pleasure from their occupation. Austin began
without delay to speak of the aborigines of North America.

"We want to know," said he, "a little more about what these people
were, and when they were first found out."

_Hunter._ When America was first discovered, the inhabitants, though
for the most part partaking of one general character, were not without
variety. The greater part, as I told you, were, both in hot and cold
latitudes, red men with black hair, and without beards. They, perhaps,
might have been divided into four parts: the Mexicans a