Proceedings and Transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science, Volume 4, Part 3Nova Scotian Institute of Science., 1877 - Science |
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Page 271 - mentions that the buck (Cariboo) has a peculiar bag or cist in the lower part of the neck, about the bigness of a crown-piece, and filled with fine flaxen hair, neatly coiled round to the thickness of an inch. There is an opening through the skin, near the head, leading to the cist, but Mr. Hutchins doe8 not offer a conjecture as to its uses in the economy of the animal. Camper found a membranous cist in the Reindeer, above the thyroid cartilage, and opening into the larynx, but I have met with...
Page 257 - In seventeen hundred and sixty one a formal treaty of peace with the Indians was signed at Halifax, and the hatchet buried. Quebec having already fallen, the Treaty of Paris (seventeen hundred and sixty -three), crushed for ever these bloody scenes. In looking over the manuscript documents relating to the Indians, now in the Record Office, we find the several treaties at Casco, Maine, at Halifax, and again at Halifax, with one Francis Mius, who held the chieftdom of LaHave, under brevet of Chevalier...
Page 263 - And now we can form some idea of these men of the stone period as they were about insensibly to fall beneath the iron age. A well fed, light footed, clay-red race, with beardless face and shock of black hair, fish and flesh eaters, reaping no harvest save from forest and sea, having neither letters or laws or settled habitations, yet either in friendship or war having relations five hundred miles at least with their neighbors on either side. This is not an unpleasant picture of man in his stone period....
Page 271 - Hutchins, and unfortunately, I was not aware of his remarks until the means of ascertaining whether such a sac exists in the Barren Ground Cariboo were beyond ray reach." This account of cist and sac for the last four or five years has occasioned me much thought ; having several times looked for the cist without success, but always forgetting the sac, and not being able to obtain any information on these...
Page 261 - Carbot gives us his mirute descriptions, from two to three generations must have passed since the Iron age had commenced its operations on the races of the Stone period. Iron knives and axes, the steel and flint, with its great powers of carrying fire everywhere, and coarse potteries and beads, must have begun already to modify their habits. The ancient arrow-maker must have ceased his art ; the son must have used an axe foreign to his father, and the squaw to ornament her skins with French beads...
Page 261 - I have now brought the Mic-Mac from his Stone or pre-historic age, his French age, and his English age, to our own times, and it remains to give his present condition. Estimated in early French times at about between three and four thousand souls, and that including Prince Edward's, we find them at the next authentic record (Judge Monk's return, 1808) as from three hundred and fifty to four hundred fighting men. This would make about two thousand souls, making a decrease of something more than fifteen...
Page 272 - Caribou is rather wider in its mouth and of more equal diameter to its lower end than that of the Virginia deer, which, at its opening, is somewhat constricted and widens towards its centre ; and the tubes of these two animals retain this waxy matter or scales, while the moose which, contrary to preconceived ideas (and this shows how little we study our animals), also has the tubes in its feet, fully developed in the hind, rudimentary in the fore feet, and if you will look at the hind foot, kindly...
Page 262 - Their summer camps are still as of old. Clothed like ourselves, with a boot keeping the feet dry, and sleeping warm and dry. they cannot, retain the old instinctive adhesiveness of race, or the ancient consumptions and palsies that formerly decimated them. Ever minding all these changes and these ceaseless influences on their moral and physical condition, we will describe the Mic-Mac Indian of the present hour. His stature is below the medium; slight, carrying his shoulders overhanging forward and...
Page 276 - ... bulbs or follicles from which the hairs inside of the sac grow : the resemblance to cellular interspaces arises from the pressure of a very delicate layer of true skin upon which they rest, and which has been pushed into these interspaces by the growth of the hair follicles. The same structure can be observed in other parts of the skin by dissecting off the true skin which is underneath from the epithelial layer which covers it, and gives origin to the hairs, but here the spaces observed are...
Page 265 - ... paying neither rent nor taxes. By a most fatal mistake in natural laws, and by teaching them their own language, by printing what were called (but really were not) Mic-Mac books and gospels, they meddled with their faith, and sought to carry them back to their old worn-out life and language, now sadly disjointed from the present times.