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Rupert's Land between the great Canada lakes and the Arctic Sea, the Crees 

 call Attihawmeg, or the " reindeer of the waters.'' In many of the tradino-- 



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posts it forms the chief food of the wliite residents ; and it is asserted that 

 though deprived of bread and vegetables, a man may live upon it for months or 



