‘NORTHERN OCEAN. 
wifhes to know what is good, muft live with the 
Indians. 
The parts of generation belonging to any beaft 
they kill, both male and female, are always eat- 
en by the men and boys; and though thofe parts, 
particularly in the males, are generally very tough, 
they are not, on any account, to be cut with an 
edge-tool, but torn to pieces with the teeth ; and 
when any part of them proves too tough to be 
matticated, it is thrown into the fire and burnt. 
For the Indians believe firmly, that if a dog fhould 
eat any part of them, it would have the fame ef- 
fect on their fuccefs in hunting, that 2 woman 
crofling their hunting-track at an improper peri- 
od would have. The fame ill-fuccefs is f{uppofed 
alfo to attend them if a woman eat any of thofe 
parts. 
They are alfo remarkably fond of the womb of 
the buffalo, elk, deer, &c. which they eagerly 
devour without wafhing, or any other procefs 
but barely firoking out the contents. ‘This, in 
fome of the larger animals, and efpecially when 
they are fome time gone with young, needs, no 
defcription to make it fufficiently difgutting ; 
and yet I have known fome in the Compaay’s 
- fervice remarkably fond of the difh, though I am 
not one of the number. The womb of the bea- 
ver and deer is well enough, but that of the moofe 
and buffalo is very rank, and truly difgufting*. 
Our 
* The Indian method of preparing this unaccountable dith is by threwing 
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