"pleasing face The old man had a "Sai" of greeting for me but returned not a word. The young fellow tried by signs to carry on a conversation limited to the animals they had killed. I was interested to see what sort of greeting they would he if the animal at the youth. His two daughters & an old man were waiting near the door, the latter approached advanced with a "Sai". The hunter returned the greeting in kind but that was all. For his two daughters there was never a birth a word, and only for his infant son, if 3 years, did he break his silence. The girls unloaded the ponies, put the skins into the log house & they all retired to the youth. But all rumors are by no means true. Korde is an exception & most of the danger I have met this taciturnity is individual for usually they are not cordial return greetings. Buntrocke the young hunter came to our camp about 3 P. M. altho' I had seen the same for them early in the morning. I learned afterwards that the old man was the very per- somification of independence and never moved & acted in any way.