Each has a peaceable disposition, and I was told that quarrels were of rare occurrence.
The Chinese call the natives _Yu-pi-ta-tze_, which in English means 'wearers of fish-skins.' I saw many garments of fish-skins, most of them for summer use.

The operation of preparing them is quite simple.
The skins are dried and afterward pounded, the blows making them flexible and removing the scales.

This done they are ready to be sewn into garments.
[Illustration: A GOLDEE HOUSE] A coat of this material embroidered and otherwise decorated is far from ugly, and sheds water like India rubber.

Fish skins are used in making sails for boats and for the windows of houses.

A Russian who had worn a Goldee coat said it was both warm and waterproof, and he suggested that it would be well to adopt fish-skin garments in America.
The Goldees and Mangoons practice Shamanism in its general features, and have a few customs peculiar to themselves.