Show Did Of MB PLENTIFUL I llmr atlae and arllHia Numerous lit the Upper llllrwan aaarrM From Ibo New York Sun An Indian In-dian missionary Her Father Lnnlel of the I Obi at order has recently returned to rlvllliitlon from the longest trip yet made by any of his order to min liter to tho aboriginal Inhabitants of the wild and little known country watered wa-tered from Ibo sources of the upper Ottawa river From tho outer confine of civilization at Mnttawn the missionary mission-ary traveled I no less I than SOO miff through this rough north country the greater part of his journey being made In a birth Nark canoe Ho parsed by the headwaters of the latlneau the Desert the Coulagne tho Damolno and lAke Keen wa visiting also the Indiana In-diana of Iho posts of Hurrlere Grand Lake Victoria and Grassy lake At Ilarrlcrc the missionary found 1M > Indians In-dians congregated to trade with the ld Irl factor of the Hudson lily Company Their method ot bartering with the company Is I quite Ingenious For Ibo first day or two after their appearance at the post they say nothing of their I hunt and make no offer to sell anything any-thing to the factor Finally their discretion dis-cretion I overcame by their want of tobacco or flour or trinket nnd they cautiously advance with a few skins which they dlspoio of for the means of supplying their Immediate wants I To all Inquiries they reply that tho I hunt has been a poor one and that they have secured but few trophic of I their chase Grad lolly more and moro peltries ore produced and soon the entire en-tire season hunt Is disposed I of Immo dlalo use being I made of the I good I oh i i tallied In exchange with no regard for I future ntcMltlcii Nominally these Indiana are Christians but practically they live I In the grossest Immorality Father Lanlcl III In his last trip I persuaded i five couple to pans through the ceremony cere-mony of matrimony and other mis slonarlcs testify to tho diclculty which they experience In preventing polygamy polyg-amy unit In Inducing some of Ibo loadIng load-Ing men of the tribe to put aside their I superfluous wives Those Indians ore cxcrvdlngty superstitious and Ibo killIng kill-Ing of n bear Is I the occasion of a ro I markahto festival among them Tho bear head Ie I placed upon a pole with I a piece of tobacco In the mouth White some contend that this Is I simply to show other Indians that bears have been found there or to keep the skull I beyond tho reach of dogs other lay I that U 1 U to honor the animal and propitiate I pro-pitiate the spirit of Its kind At time i many bear skulls may be seen upon 1 the same pole Occasionally skulls of beavers are treated thus Hut this I canon beavers have been exceedingly rare and but few have been killed and I I now the animal Is I to bo protected bylaw by-law until 1000 I |