NORTHERN OCEAN. 
The flefh of any animal, when it is thus prepared, 
39 
1770. 
is not only hearty food, but is always ready for “wv 
ufe, and at the fame time very portable. In moft 
parts of Hudfon’s Bay it is known by the name 
of Thew-hagon, but amongft the Northern Indi- 
ans it is called Achees. 
Having prepared as much dried flefh as we 
could tranfport, we proceeded to the Northward; 
and at our departure left a great quantity of meat 
behind us, which we could neither eat nor carry 
away. This was not the firft time we had fo done; 
and however wafteful it may appear, it is a prac- 
tice fo common among all the Indian tribes, as 
to be thought nothing of. On the twenty-fe- 
cond, we met feveral ftrangers, whom we joined 
in purfuit of the deer, &c. which were at this 
time fo plentiful, that we got every day a fuffi- 
cient number for our fupport, and indeed too 
frequently killed feveral merely for the tongues, 
narrow, and fat. 
' After we had been fome time in company with 
thofe Indians, I found that my guide feemed to 
hefitate about proceeding any farther; and that 
he kept pitching his tent backward and forward, 
from place to place, after the deer, and the reft 
of the Indians. On my afking him his reafon for 
fo doing; he anfwered, that as the year was too 
far advanced to admit of our arrival at the Cop- 
permine River that Summer, he thought it more 
advifable to pafs the Winter with fome of the 
Indians then in company, and alleged that there 
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224. 
