and the Tinnè, and spread westward until they come into the neighbourhood of the coast tribes of Beering's Sea, which have been already noticed. On Peel's River they name themselves Kutchin, the final n being nasal and faintly pronounced. It is dropped altogether further to the westward, on the banks of the Yukon. They are the Loucheux of Sir Alexander Mackenzie, and the Di-go-thitdinnè of the neighbouring Hare Indians.

Of this people I have but little personal acquaintance, having had only brief interviews with the families that frequent the banks of the Mackenzie for a hundred and fifty miles or so above its delta. My information respecting them is derived from my friend Mr. Bell, who has traded with them for many years, and is the first European who penetrated into their country from the eastward; and from Mr. Murray, who is now, and has been for some seasons, resident among them. them. It is to this gentlemen's very able letters, which I have had the advantage of perusing, through the kindness of chief factor Murdoch M'Pherson, that I am indebted for descriptions of the tribes dwelling on the Yukon.

The few members of the nation that I saw on the Mackenzie had much resemblance in features to their neighbours the Hare Indians, but carried themselves in a more manly manner. Being, how