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A JOURNEY TO THE 
1770, have afked goods to the amount of ten beaver 
~~ fkins at leaft. 
July. 
gth. 
7th. 
This additional piece of luggage obliged me to 
engage another Indian; and we were lucky 
enough at that time to meet with a poor forlorn 
fellow, who was fond of the office, having never 
been in a much better ftate than that of a beaft of 
burthen. Thus, provided with a canoe, anda 
man ta carry it, we left Cathawhachaga, as has 
been obfetved, on the fixth of July, and conti- 
nued our courfe to the North by Welt, and North 
North Weft; and that night put up by the fide 
of a {mall bay of White Snow Lake, where we 
angled, and caught feveral fine trout, fome of 
which weighed not lefs than fourteen or fixteen 
pounds. In the night heavy rain came on, which 
continued three days; but the ninth proving fine 
weather, and the fun difplaying his beams very 
powerfully, we dried our clothes, and proceeded 
to the Northward. Toward the evening, how- 
ever, it began again to rain fo exceflively, that it 
was with much difficulty we kept our powder and 
books dry. | 
On the feventeenth, we faw many mufk-oxen, 
feveral of which the Indians killed; when we 
agreed to ftay here a day or two, to dry and 
pound * fome of the carcafes to take with us. 
The 
* To prepare meat in this manner, it requires no farther operation 
than cutting the lean parts of the animal intothin flices, and drying it 
in the fun, or by a flow fire, till, after beating it between two flones, it is 
reduced to a coaife powder, 
