The result of this better living is superior healthiness, well-made bodies, and generally clear skins.

They brought me numbers of small birds in exchange for beads or tobacco, but mauled them terribly, notwithstanding my repeated instructions.

When they got a bird alive they would often tie a string to its leg, and keep it a day or two, till its plumage was so draggled and dirtied as to be almost worthless.

One of the first things I got from there was a living specimen of the curious and beautiful racquet-tailed kingfisher.

Seeing how much I admired it, they afterwards brought me several more, which wore all caught before daybreak, sleeping in cavities of the rocky banks of the stream.