NORTHERN OCEAN, 
| of twenty deer fkins in clothing and other dome- 
other things which it is impoflible to remember, 
/and unneceflary to enumerate. 
All fkins for the above-mentioned purpofes 
Hare, if poflible, procured between the beginning 
(jof Auguft and the middle of OGober ; for when 
Hl the rutting feafon is over, and the Winter fets in, 
i/the deer-fkins are not only very thin, but in ge- 
neral full of worms and warbles ; which render 
Hthem of little ufe, unlefs it be to cut into fine 
thongs, of which they make fifhing-nets, and nets 
for the heels and toes of their fhow-fhoes. In- 
# deed the chief ufe that is made of them in Win- 
) ter is for the purpofe of food; and really when 
the hair is properly taken off, and ail the warbles 
are {queezed out, if they are well-boiled, they are 
far from being difagreeable. The Indians, how- 
J ever, never could perfuade me to eat the warbles, 
! of which fome of them are remarkably fond, par- 
ticularly the children. They are always eaten 
|\raw and alive, out of the fkin; and are faid, by 
thofe who like them, to be as fine as goofeberries. 
But the very idea of cating fuch things, exclufive 
Hof their appearance, (many of them being as 
Hlarge as the firft joint of thelittle finger,) was 
|quite fufficient to give me an unalterable difguft 
‘to fuch a repaft; and when I acknowledge that 
\ the warbles out of the deers backs, and the do- 
imeftic lice, were the only twothings I ever faw 
my companions eat, of which I could not, or did 
not, 
SOF 
1771. 
| ftic ufes, exclufive of tent cloths, bags, and many ~~ 
Augutt, 
