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 any thing 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.

They will rather pass several days without eating than touch the meat thus intrusted to their charge, even when there exists a prospect of replacing it.
[7] Since these remarks were written the union of the rival companies has enabled the gentlemen, who have now the management of the fur trade, to take some decided steps for the religious instruction and improvement of the natives and half-breed Indians, which have been more particularly referred to in the introduction.
The hospitality of the Crees is unbounded.