NORTHERN OCEAN. 
the deer did not then keep regular paths, fo as to 
enable the Indians to catch them in pounds, yet 
they were to be met with in great abundance in 
{eattered herds; fo that my companions killed as 
many as they pleafed with their guns. 
We fill continued our courfe to the Weft and 
Weft by South, and on the eighth of April, ar- 
rived at a {mall Lake, called Thelewey-aza-yeth 5 
but with what propriety it is fo called 1 cannot 
difcover, for the meaning of Thelewey-aza-yeth is 
Little Fifth Hill: probably fo called from a high 
hill which ftands on a long point near the Welt 
end of the lake. Onan ifland in this Lake we 
pitched our tents, and the Indians finding deer 
very numerous, determined to ftay here fome 
time, in order to dry and pound meat to take 
with us; for they well knew, by the feafon of the 
year, that the deer were then drawing out to the 
barren ground, and as the Indians propofed to 
walk due North on our leaving the Lake, it was 
uncertain when we fhould again meet with any 
more. As feveral Indians had during the Win- 
ter joined our party, our number had now in- 
creafed to feven tents, which in the whole con- 
tained not lefs than feventy perfons. 
Agreeably to the Indians’ propofals we remain- 
edat Thelewey-aza-yeth ten days; during which 
time my companions were bufily employed (at 
their intervals from hunting) in preparing {mall 
ftaves of birch-wood, about one anda quarter 
inch fquare, and feven or eight feet long. ‘Thefe 
? ferve 
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1771. 
ney perme? 
March. 
_ April. 
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