Why, will my father enter the darkness with his sons ?" "We go to hunt, and for the love of the woods and the water.

Has not a hunter joy in the hunting ?" "I know it;" and the chief observed them intently, as if he were unpersuaded.

"The ways of white men are strange.

Muata hunts to keep the hut supplied with meat, but the white man carries his meat with him.

When he kills he leaves the meat and takes only the horns or the skin of the thing he has slain.