£06 
1771. 
ee 
September, 
October. 
6th. 
A JOURNEY TO THE 
entrails, and blood; and during their unclean- 
neis, their victuals were never fodden in water, 
but dried in the fun, eaten quite raw, or broil- 
ed, when a fire fit for the purpofe could be pro- 
cured. 
When the time arrived that was to put an end 
to thefe ceremonies, the men, without a female » 
being prefent, made a fire at fome diftance from 
the tents, into which they threw all their orna-. 
ments, pipe-ftems, and difhes, which were foon 
confumed to afhes; after which a feaft was pre- 
pared, confifting of fuch articles as they had long 
been prohibited from eating; and when all was 
over, each man was at liberty to eat, drink, and 
fmoke as he pleafed; and alfo to kifs his wives — 
and children at difcretion, which they feemed to 
do with more raptures than I had ever known 
them do it either before or fince. 
OGober came in very roughly, attended with 
heavy falls of fmow, and much drift. On the 
fixth at night, a heavy gale of wind from the 
North Weft put us in great diforder ; for though 
the few woods we pafled had furnifhed us with 
‘tent-poles and fewel, yet they did not afford us 
the leaft fhelter whatever. The wind blew with — 
fuch violence, that in f{pite of all our endeavours, 
it overfet feveral of the tents, and mine, among 
the reft, fhared the difafter, which I cannot fuffi- . 
ciently lament, as the but-ends of the weather | 
tent-poles fell on the quadrant, and though it was 
in a firong wainfcot cafe, two of the bubbles, the 
index, 
