On questioning the man, using the word _kina_, and pointing to each, we learned, after he understood us, that one was named _Wutchee_, and the other _Wunchee_.

The meanings of these words I have no need to translate: they were decidedly significant, and amused us a good deal.

For sewing the hides together they used an awl of bone.

The thread, which was of the sinew of some animal, was thrust through the awl-holes like a shoemaker's waxed-end, and drawn tight.

When they had finished, Kit gave _Wutchee_ (or _Wunchee_, for the life of me I couldn't tell which) a half-dozen pins from a round pin-ball he cherished, and three or four bright nickel five-cent bits.