228 JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 
at any risk, rather than return; and her daring 
perseverance was crowned with success, by her 
attaining her native shore on the fifth day. She 
fortunately came to a part where there was a 
beaten path, which she knew to be the track 
made by the rein-deer in their migrations. Here 
she halted, and prepared some sort of weapon for 
killing them; as soon as this was completed, she 
had the gratification to behold several herds of 
them advancing along the road, and had the hap- 
piness of killing a sufficient number for her win- 
ter’s subsistence, which she determined to pass 
at that place, and therefore formed a house for 
herself, after the manner she had learned from 
the Esquimaux. When spring came, and she 
emerged from her subterraneous dwelling, (for 
such the Chipewyans suppose it to have beets) 
she was astonished by observing a luminous 
glittering appearance on a distant hill, which she 
knew was not produced by the reflection of the 
sun, and being at a loss to assign any other cause 
for it, she resolyed on going up to the shining 
object, and then found the hill was entirely com 
posed of metal. She broke off several pieces, 
and perceiving that it yielded so readily to het 
beating, it occurred to her this copper (for that 
_ was the metal,) would be very serviceable to het 
countrymen, if she could find them again. While 
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