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moft every one that is in good condition: fo that 
the few fkins they do fave and bring to the mar- 
ket, are only of thofe which are fo poor that their 
flefh is not worth eating*. In fact, the fkinning 
of a Bear {poils the meat thereof, as much as it 
would do to {kin a young porker, or a roafting 
pig. The fame may be faid of fwans (the fkins 
of which the Company have lately made an arti- 
cle of trade); otherwife thoufands of their fkins | 
might be brought to market annually, by the In- 
dians that trade with the Hudfon’s Bay Compa- 
ny’s fervants at the different fettlements about 
the Bay. 
The Brown DROWN Bears are, I believe, never found in 
saan the North-Indian territories: but I faw the fkin 
of an enormous grizzled Bear at the tents of the 
Efquimaux at the Copper River; and many of 
them are faid to breed not very remote from that 
part. 
TheWolvee The WoLvereENe is common in the Northern 
sia regions, as far North as the Copper River, and 
perhaps farther. hey are equally the inhabitants 
of woods and barren grounds; for the Efquimaux 
to the North of Churchill kill many of them when 
their fkins are in excellent feafon: a proof of 
| their 
* It is common for the Southern Indians to tame and domefticate the 
young cubs; and they are frequently taken fo young that they cannot eat. 
Onthofe occafions the Indians oblige their wives who have milk in their 
breafts to fuckle them. And one of the Company’s fervants, whofe name 
js [aac Batt, willing to be as great a brute as his Indian companions, abfo- 
Jutely forced one of his wives, who had recently loft her infant, to fuckle a 
young Bear. 
