NORTHERN OCEAN. 
_ Knowing that our conftant loads would not 
permit us to carry much provifions with us, we 
agreed to continue a day or two to refrefh our- 
felves, and to dry a little meat in the fun, as it 
thereby not only becomes more portable, but is 
always ready for ufe. On the twenty-fixth, all 
that remained of the mufk-ox flefh being proper- 
ly dried and fit for carriage, we began to pro- 
ceed on our journey Northward, and on the thir- 
tieth of June arrived at a {mall river, called Ca- 
thawhachaga, which empties itfelf into a large 
lake called Yath-kyed-whoie, or White Snow 
Lake. Here we found feveral tents of Northern 
Indians, who had been fome time employed 
{pearing deer in their canoes, as they crofled the 
above mentioned little river. Here alfo we met 
D 2 a Nor- 
Houfe, an Indian, whofe name was Wapoos, came to the fettlement, ata 
time when fifteen tents of Indians were on the plantations: they examin- 
ed him very minutely, and found he had come a confiderable way by him- 
felf, without a gun, or ammunition. This made many of them conjec- 
ture he had met with, and killed, fome perfon by the way; and this was 
the more eafily credited, from the care he teok to conceal a bag of provifi- 
ens, which he had brought with him, in a lofty pine-tree near the houfe. 
Being a ftranger, 1 invited him in, though I faw he had nothing for 
trade; andduring that interview, fome of the Indian women examined his 
bag, and gave it as their opinion that the meat it contained was human 
flefh: in confequence, it was not without the interference of fome princi- 
*pal Indians, whofe liberality of fentiment was more extenfive than that in 
the others, the poor creature faved his life. Many of the men cleaned 
and loaded their guns; others had their bows and arrows ready; and even 
the women took poffeffion of the hatchets, to kill this poor inoffenfive 
wretch, for no crime but that of travelling about two hundred miles by 
himéelf, unaffifted by fire-arms for fupport in his journey, 
35 
1770. 
Se] 
June. 
26th. 
joth. 
