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Show CHAPTER XXVI T, name, Manitaries, by which this tribe is now generally known, was given by th Manda the water" The French give them the singula re appropriate to them than toany other of the India rben tho \"gx(,,\m.um,vm.u,m,u, use.this name. This people was formerly & part o ey separated, in conseque e of dispute about hey aro near neighbours, and hav T resided in three villages on the J, and the thid, which i much the th Much confusion and misunderstanding have been oce foned by the variety of names villages by the inhabitants, as wel as by other tribes, At prosent the Manitaries in their ili lages, and. doi not xoam about as they formerly did, when, like the Pawnees and othe nations, they went in pursui of the herds of bulfloe as soon as their ields were sown, returne in the autumn for the harvest, aftr which they again went into the priri e wandering , some of which are sl standing by the sde of their permanen P tof the nation, the Crows,are stll exclusively a people o hunters, who cultivate no kind of useful plants : even tobaceo i now sekdom planted,because the prefer that which they obtain from the\ traders. They sel, however, preserve their own specie of this plant for the purpose 1 have before mentioned ‘The Manitaries do not much differ in their personal appearance from the Mandans; but i strike a stranger that they are, in genera, taller. - Most o them are wellformed and stou are very tall, broadshouldered jered, and muscular; the latter u indeed, be said of the greater proportion of the men. Their noses are more or less arched, and sometimes quite straight. 1 als met vith several whose countenunces perfectl resembled those of the Botocudos, The wome Diital image© 2004 Marriot Libvary, University o Utah. Al righs reerved |