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perversely declined to repose upon more than two legs 

 at a time, and whose wrinkled old face displayed a 

 perpetual grin as if in mockery at our efforts, con- 

 stituted the major part of the property ; the rest of 

 the chattels were fishing-nets and lines, blankets, 

 ancient garments, and a most unique collection of 

 cooking utensils : four tin plates, one tin drinking 

 cup, a bouilli tin for the same purpose, a fork, and 

 two spoons of silver, and two of native horn, one of 

 which from its antiquity might have belonged to 

 Nebuchadnezzar, two kettles for fish, a coffee-pot for 

 tea, and two pemmican tins for pitchers close the 

 catalogue ; a tin saw, an auger, and sundry axes 

 complete the tale of our riches : and to us important 

 they were. 



Of food the variety was not great so far as kind 

 was concerned, but then we made amends for this in 

 the modes of preparation. Thus, although we had 

 only a species of salmon-trout occasionally, and a kind 

 of herring always, we had boiled fish and roasted fish, 

 dried fish and split fish, smoked fish and cured fish, 

 fish soups, fish cakes, and fish, fish, fish, in every 

 phase we could invent, one only excepted, of which 

 we had a sufficiency while at Fort Norman. 



Mr. Mac Kenzie had, from his scanty store, presented 

 me with two pounds of tea, and twelve of sugar ; these 



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