The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-03
TALKING BY The sun
Signs and Flashes Used by the Indians
Of the Plains.
Simple but Effective Methods Used
by Aborigines to Communt-
cate From a Distance-The
Code of the Esauimaux.

ltu lNo seluiilsiuN httttiS
I aadiug upon the top OF a rocky hill
about, Two days journey inland from IN,
north shore of Hudson's bay. We hat
been looking for reindeer, but had sccr
none. Already we had walked a long dis
tancc aud crossed many hills en- route, fol
il II the custom with the Esquimaux, a'
with the Indians, 10 60 over the top of q
hill rather than around il. This II no
only Ia have a fine lookout from an cleva
ton. but because il is impossible to con
vince a savage that il is not the shorter
route. 1t was about noon. and We were
tired, 81 We stopped to rest a few minutes
and 10 smoke a pipe. We had not been IN
The enjoyment of these ~iuxrrics long be-
fore ! heard the faint sound of n human
voice borne upon the still wind tina, was
blowing from the northward.
called the attention of my companions
60 His sound, and. brushing their long
black locks from over their ears, they
threw themselves down in the lee Of "A
great Ia, Il and listened They, too. heard
the VOICE. and said the person calling was
80 far of that They could not understand
what hr said. In the meantime ! swept
thc crest 81 a rangeof hills in the direction
of the voice with my field glass. and I'm
ally made out the figure of some one who
was waving what looked like a huge
piece Of cloth. ] passed the glass Ia Sc
- raon,, nI :. h,n;.r n,n,cJ tInL,,y
and aid he signaled us To come over
where he was; that there were indec
there.
The hills did not appear far oil. but il
- haU .;,n.ia, rs a. cn,,o liz ,ho,,
LII ,s ,ha, ,haro u,as ,,i,n,v ~ r.;n,ioor
beyond that line of hill, and that his tent
and that OF two other hunters were pitched
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