172 A JOURNEY TO THE 
i771. or beaft, it diretts its way towards them imme- 
— diately, and after hovering over them fome | 
' time, flies round them in circles, or goes a-head — 
in the fame direction in which they walk. They 
repeat their vifits frequently ; and if they fee any 
other moving objects, fly alternately from one 
party to the other, hover over them for fome time, 
and make aloud {creaming noife, like the crying 
of a child, In this manner they are faid fome- 
times to follow paflengers a whole day. The Cop- 
per Indians put. great confidence in thofe birds, 
and fay they are frequently apprized by them of 
the approach of ftrangers, and condutted by 
them to herds of deer and mufk-oxen ; which, 
without their affiftance, in all probability, they ne- 
ver could have found. ne 
The Efquimaux feem not to have imbibed the 
fame opinion of thofe birds; for if they had, they 
muft have been apprized of our approach toward 
their tents, becaufe all the time the Indians lay in | 
ambufh, (before they began the maffacre,) a 
large flock of thofe birds were continually flying 
about, and hovering alternately over them and — 
the tents, making a noife fufficient to awaken any 
man out of the foundeft fleep. 
After a fleep of five or fix hours we once more 
fet out, and’ walked eighteen or nineteen miles to 
the South South Eaft, when we arrived at one of 
the copper mines, which lies, from the river’s 
mouth about South South Fat, diftant about 
twenty-nine or thirty miles. 
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