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

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



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 montlis or 



