NORTHERN OCEAN. 
thing for trade, or that contains any inhabitants 
worth viliting. 
The accounts given of this place, and the man- 
ner of life of its inhabitants, would, if related at 
full length, fill a volume: let it fuffice to obferve, 
that the fituation is faid to be remarkably favou- 
rable for every kind of game chat the barren 
“ground produces at the different feafons of the 
} year; but the continuance of the game with 
them is in general uncertain, except that of fifh 
and partridges. That being the cafe, the few 
who compofe this little commonwealth, are, by 
‘long cuftom and the conftant example of their 
forefathers, poflefled of a provident turn of mind, 
with a degree of frugality unknown to every 
other tribe of Indians in this country except the 
Efguimaux. 
Deer is faid to vifit this part of the country in 
aftonifhing numbers, both in Spring and Autumn, 
of which circumftances the inhabitant avail 
themfelves, by killing and drying as much of 
their flefh as poflible, particularly in the fall of 
the year; fo that they feldom are in want of a 
good Winter’s ftock. 
Geefe, ducks, and f{wans vifit here in great 
plenty during their migrations both in the Spring 
and Fall, and by much art, joined to an infur- 
| mountable patience, are caught in confiderable 
numbers in {nares*, and, without doubt, make 
hs 2 a very 
* To f{nare fwans, geefe, or ducks, in the water, it requires no other 
procefs 
275 
1772-6 
Lev 
February, 
