NORTHERN OCEAN. 
- repeated it in the Winter following; but when 
he heard that the French had deftroyed the Fort, 
and carried off all the Company’s fervants, he 
never afterwards reared his head, but took an 
opportunity, when noone {fufpected his intenti- 
on, to hang himfelf. This is the more to be 
wondered at, as he is the only Northern Indian 
who, that I ever heard, put an end to his own 
exiftence. The death of this man-was a great 
lofs to the Hudfon’s Bay Company, and was at- 
tended with a moft melancholy fcene; no lefs 
than the death of fix of his wives, and four chil. 
dren, all of whom were ftarved to death the fame 
Winter, in one thoufand feven hundred and 
ecighty-three. 
CHAP. 
«BAT 
