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A JOURNEY TO THE 
Our Northern Indians who trade at the Fa¢to- 
ry, as well as all the Copper tribe, pafs their 
whole fummer on the barren ground, where they 
generally find plenty of deer; and in fome 
of the rivers and lakes, a great abundance of fine 
fith. fe 
Their bows and arrows, though their original \, 
weapons, are, fince the introduction of fire-arms | 
among them, become of little ufe, except in kill- 
ing deer as they walk or.run through a narrow 
. pafs 
the filthy bag acrofs a pole direétly over the fire, the fmoke of which, they 
fay, much improves it, by taking off the original flavour; and when any 
of it is to be cooked, a large flake, like as much tripe, is cut off and boiled 
.for a few minutes; but the many large nodes with which the infide ofthe 
womb is ftudded, make it abominable. Thefe nodes are as incapable of 
being divefted of moifture as the fkin ofa live eel; but when boiled, 
much refemble, both in fhape and colour, the yolk of an egg, and are fo 
called by the natives, and as eagerly devoured by them, 
The tripe of the buffalo is exceedingly good, and the Indian method of 
cooking -it infinitely fuperior to that praétifed in Europe. When oppor- 
tunity will permit, they wath it tolerably clean in cold water, ftrip off all 
the honey-comb, and only boil it about half, or three-quarters of an 
hour: in that time it is fufficiently done for eating; and though rather 
tougher than what is prepared in England, yet is exceedingly pleafant to 
the tafte, and muft be much more nourifhing than tripe that has been _ 
foked and {crubbed in many hot waters, and then boiled for ten or twelve — 
hours. a. 
The leffer flomach, or, as fome call it, the many-folds, either of buf- _ 
falo, maofe, or deer, are ufually eatraw, and are very good; but that of 
the moofe, unlefs great care be taken in wafhing it, is rather bitter, ow- 
. ing to the nature of their food. 
The kidneys of both moofe and buffalo are ufually eat raw by the Sou- 
thern Indians; for no fooner is one of thofe beafts killed, than the hun- — 
ter rips up its belly, thrufts in hisarm, fnatches out the kidneys, and eats 
them warm, before the animal is quite dead. ‘They alfo at times put their 
mouths to the wound the bal! has made, and fuck the blood; which 
they fay quenches thirft, and is very nourifhing. 
