24 A JOURNEY TO THE 
‘170, refrefhment for the three preceding days, except 
i a pipe of tobacco and a draught of water; even 
partridges had become {o fcarce that not one was 
to be got; the heavy thaws had driven them all 
‘out towards the barren grounds. About mid- 
night, to our great joy, our hunter arrived, and 
brought with him the blood and fragments of 
two deer that he had killed. This unexpected 
fuccefs foon roufed the fleepers, who, in an in- 
ftant were bufily employed in cooking a large 
ee of broth, made with the blood, and fome 
at and fcraps of meat fhred {mall, boiled in it. 
This might be reckoned a dainty difh at any time, 
but was more particularly fo in our prefent almoft 
famifhed condition. 
After partaking of this refrefhment, we refum- 
ed our reft, and early in the morning fet out in a 
body for the place where the deer were lying. 
As we intended to make our ftay but fhort, we 
left our tent flanding, containing all our. bag- 
gave. On our arrival at the place of deftination, 
uth. fome were immediately employed in making a 
hut or-barrocado, with young pine trees; while 
one man fkinned the deer, the remainder went a 
hunting, and in the afternoom returned to the 
hut, after having killed twodeer. 
Several days were now fpent in feafting and 
gluttony; during which the Indians killed five 
more deer and three fine beavers; finding at 
lat, however, that there was little profpect of 
procuring either more deer or beavers, we deter- 
mined 
