NORTHERN OCEAN. at 
ever, he fo far recovered as to be capable of walk- 1 ~~, 
ing; when we proceeded on to the Weft and ——~ 
Weft by North, about fixteen miles farther on the 7 
fame Lake, till we arrived at two tents, which 
contained the remainder of the wives and families 
of my guides, who had been waiting there for 
the return of their hufbands from the Fort. Here 
we found only two men, though there were up- 
ward of twenty women and children; and as 
thofe two men had no gun or ammunition, they 
had no other method of fupporting themfelves 
and the women, but by catching fifh, and {naring 
a few rabbits: the latter were fcarce, but the for- 
mer were eafily caught in confiderable numbers 
either with nets or hooks. ‘The fpecies of fifh 
generally caught in the nets are tittemeg, pike, 
and barble; and the only forts caught with 
hooks are trout, pike, burbut, anda {mall fifh, 
erroneouilly called by the Englifh tench: the Sou- 
thern Indians called it the toothed tittemeg, and 
the Northern Indians call it /aint eah. They are 
delicate eating; being nearly as firm as a perch, 
and generally very fat. They feldom exceed a 
foot in length, and in fhape much refemble a 
furnard, except that of having a very long broad 
fin on the back, like a perch, but this fin is not 
armed with fimilar fpikes. The fcales are large, 
and of a footy brown. They are generally moft 
efteemed when broiled or roafted with the fcales 
on, of courfe the {kin is not eaten. 
As the Captain [Matonabbee] and one man 
were 
