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NORTHERN OCEAN. 
| dried it by the fun and wind while we were 
| walking; and, ftrange as it may appear, meat 
thus prepared is not only very fubftantial food, 
but pleafant to the tafte, and generally much 
efteemed by the natives. For my own part I 
mutt acknowledge, that it was not only agrecable 
to my palate, but after eating a meal of it, I 
have always found that I could travel longer 
without victuals, than after any other kind of 
food. All the dried meat prepared by the Sou- 
thern Indians is performed by expofing it to the 
heat of a large fire, which foon exhaufts all the 
fine juices from it, and when fufficiently dry to 
prevent putrefaction, is no more to be compared 
with that cured by. the Northern Indians in the 
Sun, or by the heat of a very flow fire, than 
meat that has been boiled down for the fake of 
the foup, is to that which is only fufficiently 
| boiled for eating: the latter has all the juices re- 
maining, which, being eafily diflolved by the 
heat and moifture of the ftomach, proves a ftrong 
and nourifhing food; whereas the former being 
entirely deprived of thofe qualities, can by no 
means have an equal claim to that charaéter. 
Mott of the Europeans, however, are fonder of it 
than they are of that cured by the Northern Indi- 
ans. ‘The fame may be faid to the lean parts of 
the beait, which are firft dried, and then reduced 
into a kind of powder. That done by the Nor- 
thern 
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| but the drying it occafioned no delay, as we fa- 1772. 
ftened it on the tops of the women’s bundles, and gee Fa 
ne. 
