They come, some of them, every year about Christmas to Providence. They are called more enterprising than any others who trade at Providence. They speak a dialect of Slavey. They live in a good game country. They do not visit other Indians, nor do families of Christian Indians hunt among them for a year's visit, as other groups do with each other.
Women never come to the trading posts.
Occasionally a few come in canoes down Beaver River twenty-five or thirty miles S. of Providence and go home up Yellow Knife, about eighty miles, north of Providence. This is outlet of Beaver Lake. Wolves and Deer. One year in the '70's there were extensive bush fires between Bear Lake and the Mackenzie. Before that, caribou used to pass in great numbers between the lake and the river, but were apparently turned back by the burning of the moss which to this day has not grown up in the burnt stretch and have never since passed south or north, west of the Iske, but only east of it.