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1771. 
A JOURNEY TO THE 
heavy laden, took a much longer time. Several | 
.—.— of the Indians were much frozen, but none OF | 
February. 
them more difagreeably fo than one of Matonab- 
bee’s wives, whofe thighs and buttocks were in 
a manner incrufted with froft; and when thaws 
ed, feveral blifters arofe, nearly as large as theeps’ 
bladders. The pain the poor woman fuffered on 
this occafion was greatly aggravated by the laugh- 
ter and jeering of her companions, who faid 
that fhe was rightly ferved for belting her clothes 
fo high. I muf acknowledge that I was not in 
the number of thofe who pitied her, as I thought — 
fhe took too much pains to fhew a clean heel and | 
good leg; her garters being always in fight, | 
which, though by no means confidered here as 
bordering on indecency, is by far too airy ta 
withftand the rigorous cold of a fevere winter in- 
a high Northern latitude. I doubt not that the 
laughter of her companions was excited by fimilar 
ideas. 
When we got on the Weft fide of Partridge 
Lake we continued our courfe for many days to- 
ward the Weit by South and Weft South Weft; 
when deer were fo plentiful, and the india 
killed fuch vaft numbers, that notwithftanding 
we frequently remained three, four, or five days | 
in a place, to eat up the fpoils of our hunting, 
yet at our departure we frequently left great 
quantities of good meat behind us, which we 
eould neither eat nor carry with us.. This con- 
duct is the more excufable among people whofe 
wandering 
