34 CONTENTS 



manner — Method of pitching a tent in Winter — Fish plentiful for 

 some time ; grow very scarce ; in great want of provisions — 

 Manner of employing my time — My guide killed two deer — Move 

 to the place they were lying at ; there kill several more deer, and 

 three beavers — Soon in want of provisions again — Many Indians 

 join us from the Westward — We begin to move towards the barren 

 ground — Arrive at She-than-nee, there suffer great distress for want 

 of provisions — Indians kill two swans and three geese — Geese and 

 other birds of passage plentiful — Leave She-than-nee, and arrive at 

 Beralzone — One of my companions guns bursts, and shatters his 

 left hand — Leave Beralzone, and get on the barren ground, clear 

 of all woods — Throw away our sledges and snow shoes — Each per- 

 son takes a load on his back ; my part of the luggage — Exposed 

 to many hardships — Several days without victuals — Indians kill 

 three musk-oxen, but for want of fire are obliged to eat the meat 

 raw — Fine weather returns ; make a fire ; effects of long fasting ; 

 stay a day or two to dry some meat in the Sun — Proceed to the 

 Northward, and arrive at Cathawhachaga ; there find some tents 

 of Indians — A Northern Leader called Keelshies meets us ; send a 

 letter by him to the Governor — Transactions at Cathawhachaga ; 

 leave it and proceed to the Northward — Meet several Indians — 

 My guide not willing to proceed ; his reasons for it — Many more 

 Indians join us — Arrive at Doobaunt Whoie River — Manner of 

 ferrying over rivers in the Northern Indian canoes — No rivers in 

 those parts in a useful direction for the natives — Had nearly lost the 

 quadrant and all the powder — Some reflections on our situation, 

 and conduct of the Indians — Find the quadrant and part of the 

 powder — Observe for the latitude — Quadrant broke — Resolve to 

 return again to the Factory 69 



CHAP. III. 



Transactions from the time the Quadrant was broken, till I 

 arrived at the Factory. 



Several strange Indians join us from the Northward — They 

 plunder me of all I had ; but did not plunder the Southern Indians 

 — My guide plundered — We begin our return to the Factory — Meet 

 with other Indians, who join our company — Collect deer-skins for 

 clothing, but could not get them [xiii] dressed — Suffermuch hardship 

 from the want of tents and warm clothing — Most of the Indians 

 leave us — Meet with Matonabbee — Some account of him, and his 

 behaviour to me and the Southern Indians — We remain in his 

 company some time — His observations on my two unsuccessful 

 attempts — We leave him, and proceed to a place to which he 

 directed us, in order to make snow-shoes and sledges — Join Mato- 



