NORTHERN OCEAN, 
fhocking ftory, which fhe delivered in a very af- 
feéting manner, only excited laughter among the 
favages of my party. 
In a converfation with this woman foon after- 
ward, fhe told us, that her country lies fo far to 
the Weftward, that fhe had never feen iron, or 
any other kind of metal, till fhe was taken prifo- 
ner. All of her tribe, fhe obferved, made their 
hatchets and ice-chifels of deer’s horns, and their 
knives of ftones and bones; that their arrows 
were fhod with a kind of flate, bones, and deer’s 
horns ; and the inflruments which they employ- 
ed to make their wood-work were nothing but 
beaver’s teeth. Though they had frequently 
heard of the ufeful materials which the nations 
or tribes to the Eaft of them were fupplied with 
from the Englith, fo far were they from drawing 
nearer, to be in the way of trading for iron- 
work, t’c. that they were obliged to retreat far- 
ther back, to avoid the Athapufcow Indians, who 
made furprifing flaughter among them, both in 
Winter and Summer. : 
On the fixteenth, as we were continuing our 
He hoe courfe 
flave, which I intended to have brought up as-a domeftic, Mifs was equally 
defirous that one might be brought to her, for the eruel purpofe of mur- 
dering it. It is {carcely poffible to exprefs my aftonifhment, en hearing 
fuch an extraordinary requeft made by a young creature fearcely fixteen 
years old; however, as foon as I recovered from my furprife, I ordered her 
to leave the fettlement, which the did, with thofe who were going to war; 
and it is therefore probable the might not be difappointed in her requett. 
The next year I was ordered to the command of Prince of Wales’s Fort, 
and therefore never faw her afterward, 
267 
1772. 
en one 
January. 
16th. 
