Their features have the same general characteristics and their languages are as much alike as those of a Cheyenne and Comanche.

Each people has its peculiar customs, such as the style of dress, the mode of constructing a house, or rowing a boat.

All are pagans and indulge in Shamanism, but each tribe has forms of its own.

All are fishers and hunters, their principal support being derived from the river.
The Goldee boat was so much like a Gilyak one that I could see no difference.

There was no opportunity to examine it closely, as we passed at a distance of two or three hundred feet.
Besides their boats of wood the Goldees make canoes of birch bark, quite broad in the middle and coming to a point at both ends.