NORTHERN OCEAN. 
wandering manner of life and contracted ideas 
77 
1771. 
make every thing appear to them as the effect of Wr 
‘mere chance. The great uncertainty of their 
ever viliting this or that part a fecond time, in- 
duces them to think there is nothing either wrong 
or improvident in living on the beft the country 
will afford, as they are pafling through it from 
place to place; and they feem willing that thofe 
who come after them fhould take their chance, as 
they have done. 
On the twenty-firft, we crofled The-whole-ky- 
ed Whoie, or Snowbird Lake, which at that part 
was about twelve or thirteen miles wide, though 
from North to South it is much larger. As deer 
February, 
21k, 
were as plentiful as before, we expended much | 
time in killing and eating them, ‘This Mato- 
nabbee aflured me was the beft way we could em- 
ploy ourfelves, as the feafon would by no means 
permit us to proceed in a direct line for the Cop- 
per-mine River; but when the Spring advanced, 
and the deer began to draw out to the barren 
ground, he would then, he faid, proceed in 
fuch a manner as to leave no room to doubt 
of our arrival at the Copper-mine River in pro- 
per time. 
On the fecond of March, we lay by the fide of 
Whooldyah’d Whoie or Pike Lake, and not far 
from Doo-baunt Whoie River. On the next 
day we again began to crofs the above mentioned 
Lake, but after walking feven miles on it to the 
|" Weft South Weft, we arrived at a large tent of 
a) Northern 
March 
2d 
3d, 
