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1771, voured, a8 much as poflible, to convince themin — 
June. 
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A JOURNEY TO THE 
the cleareft terms of which I was mafter, of the 
great impropriety of fuch wafte; particularly at 
a time of the year when their fkins could not be | 
of any ufe for clothing, and when the anxiety to 
proceed on ovr journey would not permit us to 
ftay long enough in one place to eat up half the | 
fpoils of their hunting. As national cuftoms, 
however, are not eafily overcome, my remons 
firances proved ineffetual; and I was always 
anfwered, that it was certainly right to kill plen- 
ty, and live on the beft, when and where it was 
to be got, for that it would be impoffible to do it 
where every thing was {carce: and they infifted 
on it, that killing plenty of deer and other game 
in one part of the country, could never make 
them fcarcer in another. Indeed, they were fo 
accuftomed to kill every thing that came within” 
their reach, that few of them could pafs by a 
fmall bird’s neft, without {laying the young ones, 
or deftroying the eggs. i 
From the feventeenth to the twentieth, we 
walked between feventy and eighty miles to the 
North Weft and North North Weft; the oa 
part of the way by Cogead Lake; but the Lake 
being then frozen, we croffed all the creeks and 
bays of it on the ice. sf 
On the twenty-firft we had bad rainy weather, 
with fo thick a fog that we could not fee our way: 
about ten o loge? at night, however, it became 
fine and clear, and the Sun fhone very bright ; 
indeed» 
