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behind to perifh above-ground.—Weather very bad, 
but deer plenty.—Stay fome time at Point Lake to 
dry meat, &c.—Winter fet in.—Superftitious cuftoms 
obferved by my companions, after they had killed the 
E/quimaux ai Copper River.— 4 violent gale of wind 
overfets my, tent and breaks my quadrant.—Some 
Copper and Dog-ribbed Indians join us.—Indians 
propofe to go to the Athapufcow Country to kill 
moofe.— Leave Point Lake, and arrive at the wood’s 
edge-—Arrive at Anawd Lake.—Tranfactions 
there—Remarkabie inftance of a man being cured 
of the palfey by the conjurors.—Leave Anawd Lake 
—Arrive at the great Athapufcow Lake. 189 
C H A-P. VUHL. 
Tranfactions and Remarks from our Arrival on 
the South Side of the Athapufcow Lake, till our 
- Arrival at Prince of Wales’s Fort on Churchill 
River. 
Crofs the Athapufcow Lake.-—Defcription of it and 
its productions, as far as could be difcovered in 
Winter, when the [now was on the ground. —Fi/b 
found in the lake.— Defcription of the buffalo ;— 
of the moofe or elk, and the method of dreffing their 
Skins. —Find a woman alone that had not feen a 
human face for more than feven months.—Her ac- 
count how fhe came to be in that fituation ; and her 
curious method of procuring a livelihood.—Many of 
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