96. _Marching, or travelling moderately_—The hand held vertically as high as the neck, with slightly divided fingers, and rocked edgewise forward and backward upon the wrist, extending the arm a little forwards. This sign resembles that for _inquiry_ (No. 27.), but differs in the direction of the motion of the hand. 97. _The return of a party through fear_—Begin with the preceding motion; then draw the tips of the fingers and thumb together, and retreat the hand to the body. 98. _Hunting shirt_—The fore finger and thumb, so opposed as to form a curve, are passed near the surface of the body, from the forehead to the abdomen. 99. _Surprise or astonishment_—Is indicated by placing the hand upon the mouth, to show that {283} language is inadequate to communicate their sensations. 100. _Calumet dance_—The hand extended with the edge upward, and with the arm waved sideways, with a motion like that of a swing. 101. _Beaver trap_—The two fore fingers brought suddenly together, in a parallel manner, so as to represent the snapping of the steel trap. 102. _Stone_—Close the right hand, and strike the palm of the left hand two or three times with it. 103. _Give it to me_—The hand extended in a pointing position towards the object in request; then brought towards the body with the finger raised vertically, and laid against the breast. 104. _Mountains_—When speaking of the Rocky Mountains, Tarrarecawaho held up the fingers of his left hand, a little diverging from each other; and to convey the idea of the streams flowing from them, he placed the index finger of his right hand alternately between each two of them, and drew it away in a serpentine manner. * * * * * The following signs are extracted from an essay by William Dunbar, Esq., published in the sixth volume of the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. It will be observed that some of them differ essentially from those which we obtained, and that we have omitted ten of them which correspond with those we have given. _White_—With the under side of the fingers of the right hand rub gently upon that part of the left hand which corresponds with the knitting of the bones of the fore finger and thumb. _Egg_—The right hand held up with the fingers and thumb extended, and approaching each other as if holding an egg within. _The same, or similar to what went before_—Place the two fore fingers parallel to each other, and push them forward a little. {284} _Snow_—Begin with the sign of rain, then the sign of air or cold, and conclude with the sign of white. _Ice_—Begin with the sign of water, then of cold, then the earth; and, lastly, a stone, with the sign of sameness or similarity. _Hail_—Begin with the sign of water, then the sign of cold, next the sign of a stone, then the same, then the sign of white; and, lastly, conclude, with the sign of an egg; all which, combined, give the idea of hail.