Show CUSTOMS OF THE like the indians the Esqui maux often kill the old often the old are tired of life and beg to be dispatched if food is scarce they are turned out to starve whether they like it or not the superfluous women are also disposed of ju in this way barbarism shows itself in their treatment of the dead the body of a favorite wite wife or child is sometimes protected through the winter and decently buried in the spring but as a general rule corpses are drugged dragged a short distance from the village and abandoned to the dogs the savages have no idea of the marriage relation women are treated as chattels the number of wives a man may have is regulated not by his possessions but by his ability to manage women one inz in fers from this that polygamy is not carried oo on to any great extent great divide |