The squirrel next broke a piece of bark from the tree, endowed it with the power of floating, and said, "Behold the material which shall afford the future inhabitants of the earth the means of traversing the waters." The Indians are not the first people who have ascribed the origin of nautics to the ingenuity of the squirrel.

The Copper Indians consider the bear, otter, and other animals of prey, or rather some kind of spirits which assume the forms of these creatures, as their constant enemies and the cause of every misfortune they endure; and in seasons of difficulty or sickness they alternately deprecate and abuse them.
Few of this nation have more than one wife at a time and none but the leaders have more than two.

Akaitcho has three and the mother of his only son is the favourite.

They frequently marry two sisters and there is no prohibition to the intermarriage of cousins but a man is restricted from marrying his niece.
The last war excursion they made against the Esquimaux was ten years ago when they destroyed about thirty persons at the mouth of what they term Stony-Point River, not far from the mouth of the Copper-Mine River.

They now seem desirous of being on friendly terms with that persecuted nation and hope through our means to establish a lucrative commerce with them.
Indeed the Copper Indians are sensible of the advantages that would accrue to them were they made the carriers of goods between the traders and Esquimaux.
At the time of Hearne's visit the Copper Indians, being unsupplied with firearms, were oppressed by the Chipewyans; but even that traveller had occasion to praise their kindness of heart.