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Some through neceffity obliged to boil it in veffels.:made 
of the rind of the birch-tree.—A remarkable difh 
among thofe people.—The young animals always cut 
out of their dams eaten, and accounted a great deli- 
 cacy.—The parts of generation of all animals eat by 
the men and boys.—-Manner of paffing their time, 
and method of killing deer in Summer with bows 
and arrows-—Their tents, dogs, fledges, &t— 
Snow-boes.—Their partiality to domeftic vermin. 
—Utmoft extent of the Northern Indian country.— 
Face of the country.—Species of jfifb.—A peculiar 
kind of mofs ufeful for the fupport of man.—Nor- 
thern Indian method of catching if, either with 
hooks or nets.—Ceremgny obferved when two par- 
ties of thofe people meet.—Diverfions in common ufe. 
—A fingular diforder which attacks fome of thofe 
people.—T heir fuperftition with refpect to the death 
of their friends. —Ceremony obferved on thofe occafi- 
ons.—T heir ideas of the firft inhabitants of the world. 
—No formof religion among them.---Remarks on that 
circumftance.—T he extreme mifery to which old age | 
is expofed.—T heir opinion of the Aurora Borealis, 
&c.—Some account of Matonabbee, and his fervi- 
ces to his country, as well as to the Hudjon’s Bay 
company. . : Page 304 
CHAP. 
