NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS.



erful, or more inclined to do good, they
make him keep near him who holds the
even go to a crreat way sometimes to fetch
through age or any infirmity, he cannot w
carry him on their shoulders.



  They h
ent at thes
are more
village, the
quack pre
village, at
to play at.
their chic
the game
thanks to
But there
traflr, she
"IPhe ill
the missio



never- fail to
dish. They
him; and if,
alk, they will



ave often pressed the missionaries to be press
e games, as they believe their Guardian Genii
powerful. It happened one day in a Huron
at a sick person having sent for a juggler, this
scribed the game of the dish, and appointed a
some distance from the sick person's residence,
  They immediately sent to ask the leave of
kf; it was granted, and they played. When
was ended, the sick person returned many
the players for having cured her, as she said.
was nothing of truth in all this; on the con-
was worse.
humor of this woman and her relations fell on
naries, who had refused to assist at the game.



notivithstanding all the i
gage them; and in theii
sance they showed them
by way of reproach, that
try the Genii of the saye
are the observations of a



.mportunities they used to en-
r anger for the little complai-
on this occasion, they told them
since their arrival in this coun-
ages had lost their power. Such
French missionary who resi-



ded a long time among the Hurons.



GAME OF THE PATOONI AMONG THE KAMSCHAO
                       DALES.

  The game of the Patooni, which La Roche briefly de-
scribes, was, from every appearance, originally the same
as that of the little bones among the American Indians,
although in Kamschatka sticks were substituted for
bones. " It is surprising," says La Roche, "1 to witness the
simplicity and superstition of some of these people while
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