330 DEATH FROM STARVATION. 



bale-cords made of green hide, leather, and even 

 their mocassins, they began in the middle of Decem- 

 ber to singe and eat the remahiing furs. The Indian 

 with his wife, his young brother, and two little girls, 

 went to encamp in the woods, where they dragged on 

 a miserable existence with the aid of rabbits and 

 esculent roots. Mr. P. having, perhaps, more confi- 

 dence in his own powers than in those of his men, 

 gave them up the furs, telling them to try and make 

 them last out until spring, while he himself went 

 off in the beginning of January to a lake to try and 

 catch fish. Here is his diet-table for 57 days : — 



20 fish. 

 18 rabbits. 

 8 partridges. 

 10 squirrels. 



Ifox. 



1 crow or raven. 



1 owl. 



On his return, on the 13th of March, he found to 

 his horror but one man ; and, asking for the other, 

 was informed that he had died eight days since from 

 sheer inanition : for, although the furs were by no means 

 exhausted, they did not contain matter sufficient for 

 the creation of blood ; and thus, though often eating 

 to surfeiting, he sank gradually until his last feeble 

 breath was drawn. Mr. P. asked the remaining man 

 where the body was ; he replied that he had cached it 

 inside, but that the wolves had dragged it away. 



