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flux into the fea, At that time all the Copper ,,~,, 
Indians were difpatched different ways, fo that -~ 
there was not one in company, who knew the 
fhorteft cut to the main river. Seeing fome 
woods to the Weftward, and judging that the 
current of the rivulet ran that way, we concluded 
that the main river lay in that direction, and was 
not very remote from our prefent fituation. We 
therefore directed our courfe by the fide of it, 
when the Indians met with feveral very fine buck 
deer, which they deftroyed; and as that part we 
now traverfed afforded plenty of good fire- wood, 
we put up, and cooked the moft comfortable 
meal to which we had fat down for fome months. 
As fuch favourable opportunities of indulging the 
appetite happen but feldom, it is a general rule 
with the Indians which we did not neglect, to ex- 
ert every art in drefling our food which the moft 
refined {kill in Indian cookery has been able to 
invent, and which confifts chiefly in boiling, 
broiling, and roafting : but of all the difhes cook- 
ed by thofe people, a decatee, as it is called in their 
language, is certainly the moft delicious, at leaft 
for a chance, that can be prepared from a deer on- 
ly, without any other ingredient. Itis a kind of 
haggis, made with the blood, a good quantity of 
fat fhred fmall, fome of the tendereft of the flefh, 
together with the heart and lungs cut, or more 
commonly torn into fmall fhivers; all which is 
put into the ftomach, and roafted, by being fuf- 
pended before the fire by a ftring. Care muft be 
taken 
July. 
