[42] Crantz, I p. 211, 215. [↑]
[43] Such men, treated as wives and performing female labour, were very numerous in Kamchatka; see Steller, p. 350 note. [↑]
[44] Sutherland (I p. 379) remarks that “when a slave has to be fed by the huntsman skill of his master, he is a burden rather than a help, and amid roving habits it is difficult to see how there can be enough of drudgery to made it convenient to feed him.” [↑]
[45] The Germans call such people Sammler. [↑]
[46] Bancroft, p. 118; see also Mackenzie, I p. 151. [↑]
[47] The positive cases here are 5 + 14 = 19, instead of 18, because the Indians about Puget Sound count double, some of them being hunters and others fishers. The negative cases are 54 + 15 = 69, instead of 70, because we have omitted the Chepewyans. [↑]