" NORTHERN OCEAN. 
Weftward, through thick fhrubby woods, confift- 
ing chiefly of ill-{haped ftunted pines, with finall 
dwarf junipers, intermixed here and there, par- 
ticularly round the margins of ponds and fwamps, 
with dwarf willow bufhes; and among the 
rocks and fides of the hills were alfo fome {mall 
poplars. 
On the thirtieth, we arrived at the Eaft fide of 
Ifland Lake, where the Indians killed two large 
buck deer; but the rutting feafon was {fo lately 
over, that their flefh was only eatable by thofe 
who could not procure better food. In the even- 
ing, Matonabbee was taken very ill; and from 
the nature of his complaint, I judged his illnefs 
to have proceeded from the enormous quantity 
of meat that he had eat on the twenty-feventh, 
as he had been indifpofed ever fince that time. 
Nothing is more common with thofe Indians, 
after they have eat as much at a fitting as would 
ferve fix moderate men, than to find themfelves 
out of order ; but not one of them can bear to hear 
that it is the effect of eating too much: in de- 
fence of which they fay, that the meaneft of the 
animal creation knows when hunger it fatisfied, 
and will leave off accordingly. ‘This, however, 
isa falfe aflertion, advanced knowingly in fup- 
port of an abfurd argument ; for it is well known 
by them, as well as all the Southern Indians, that 
the black bear, who, for fize and the delicacy of 
its flefh, may juftly be called a refpectable ani- 
mal, is fo far from knowing when its hunger is 
fatisfied, 
69 
Healy be 
Leryn 
December, 
goth. 
