242 JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 
district, more particularly termed the Chipewyan 
lands, or barren country, is frequented by nu- 
merous herds of rein-deer, which furnish easy 
subsistence, and,clothing to the Indians ; but the 
traders endeavour to keep them in the parts to 
the westward where the beavers resort. There 
are about one hundred and sixty hunters who 
carry their furs to the Great Slave Lake, forty to 
Hay River, and two hundred and forty to Fort 
Chipewyan. A few Northern Indians also resort 
to the posts at the bottom of the Lake of the 
Hills, on Red Deer Lake, and to Churchill. The 
distance, however, of the latter post from their 
hunting grounds, and the sufferings to which they 
are exposed in going thither from want of food, 
haye induced those who were formerly accustomed 
to visit it, to convey their furs to some nearer sta 
tion. 
These people are so minutely described » 
Hearne and M‘Kenzie, that. little can be 2 
by.a passing stranger, whose observations were 
made during short interviews, and. when they 
were at the forts, where they lay aside many 
of their distinguishing characteristics, and strive 
at an imitation of the. manners of the voyaeet 
and traders. 
» The Chipewyans are by no means prepossess 
ing in their appearance : they have broad face’ 
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