NORTHERN OCEAN. 
mined to return to our tent, with the remains of 
what we had already obtained. 
The ficth of thefe deer, though none of the 
largeft, might with frugality ‘have ferved our 
{mall number, (being only fix) for fome time ; 
but my companions, like other Indians, feafted 
day and night while it lafted; and were {fo indo- 
lent and unthinking, as not to attend properly 
to the fifhing-nets; fo that many fine fifh, which 
had been entangled in the nets, were entirely 
{fpoiled, and in about twelve or fourteen days we 
were nearly in as, great diftrefs for provifions as 
ever. 
During the courfe of our long inattivity, Saw- 
fop-o-kifhac, commonly called Soflop, my princi- 
pal Southern Indian, as he was -cutting: fome’ 
birch for fpoons,» dishes, and other neceflary 
houfehold furniture, had the misfortune to cut 
his leg in fuch a manner’as to be incapable of 
walking ; and the other Southern Indian, though 
a much younger man, ‘was fo indolent as not to 
- be of any fervice tome, except hauling part of 
our luggage, and eating up part of the provifions 
which had been provided by the more induftrious, 
part of my companions. | 
On the twenty-fourth, early in the day, a great . 
body of Indians. was feen to the South Weft, on 
the largelake by the fide of which our tent ftood, 
On‘their arrival at our tent we difcovered them 
to be the wives and families of the Northern In- 
dian goofe-hunters, who were gone to Prince of 
Wales’s 
45 
1770. 
_ April. 
22d: > 
24th. 
