Note 1250 — IX THE REGULATION OF NUMBERS AMONG PRIMITIVE RACES
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Hardisty, loc. cit., p. 311. Other accounts describe lean periods among the northern tribes as fairly common, during which ‘they often subsist for a great length of time upon a very little food’ (Harmon, loc. cit., p. 284). See also Morgan, Houses and House Life, p. 56.