NORTHERN OCEAN. 
which cannot be afcertained but by thrufting a 
ftick through the {now down to the ground, all 
over the propofed part. Whenaconvenient fpot 
is found, the {now is then cleared away in a cir- 
cular form to the very mofs; and when it is pro- 
pofed to remain more than a night or two in one 
place, the mofs is alfo cut up and removed, as it 
is very liable when dry to take fire, and occafion 
much trouble to the inhabitants. A quantity of 
poles are then procured, which are generally pro- 
portioned both in number and length to the fize 
of the tent cloth, and the number of perfons it is 
intended to contain. If one of the poles fhould 
not happen to be forked, two of them are tied 
together near the top, then raifed erect, and their 
buts or lower ends extended as wide as the pro-’ - 
pofed diameter of the tent; the other poles are 
then fet round at equal diftances from each other, 
and in fuch order, that their lower ends form a 
complete circle, which gives boundaries to the 
tent on all fides: the tent cloth is then faftened 
to a light pole, which is always raifed up and put 
round the poles from the weather fide, fo that the 
two edges that lap over and form the door are 
always to the leeward. It muft be underftood 
that this method is only in ufe when the Indians 
are moving from place to place every day; for 
when they intend to continue any time in one 
place, they always make the door of their tent to 
face the South. 
The tent cloth is ufually of thin Moofe leather, 
C2 drefled 
19 
1770. 
March. 
