Notwithstanding the frequent violations of the rights of property they have witnessed and but too often experienced in their own persons, these savages, as they are termed, remain strictly honest.

During their visits to a post they are suffered to enter every apartment in the house without the least restraint and, although articles of value to them are scattered about, nothing is ever missed.

They scrupulously avoid moving anything from its place although they are often prompted by curiosity to examine it.

In some cases indeed they carry this principle to a degree of self-denial which would hardly be expected.

It often happens that meat which has been paid for (if the poisonous draught it procures them can be considered as payment) is left at their lodges until a convenient opportunity occurs of carrying it away.