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Their hatchets are made of a thick lump of copper, about 1771. 

 five or six inches long, and from one and a half to two inches ■'" ^' 

 square ; they are bevelled away at one end like a [169] mortice- 

 chissel. This is lashed into the end of a piece of wood about 

 twelve or fourteen inches long, in such a manner as to act like 

 an adze : in general they are applied to the wood like a chissel, 

 and driven in with a heavy club, instead of a mallet. Neither 

 the weight of the tool nor the sharpness of the metal will 

 admit of their being handled either as adze or axe, with any 

 degree of success. 



The men's bayonets and women's knives are also made of 

 copper ; the former are in shape like the ace of spades, with 

 the handle of deers horn a foot long, and the latter exactly 

 resemble those described by Crantz. Samples of both these 

 implements I formerly sent home to James Fitzgerald, Esq. 

 then one of the Hudson's Bay Committee. 



Among all the spoils of the twelve tents which my com- 

 panions plundered, only two small pieces of iron were found ; 

 one of which was about an inch and a half long, and three 

 eighths of an inch broad, made into a woman's knife ; the 

 other was barely an inch long, and a quarter of an inch wide. 

 This last was rivetted into a piece of ivory, so as to form a 

 man's knife, known in Hudson's Bay by the name of Mokeatog- 

 gan^ and is the only instrument used by them in shaping all 

 their woodwork. 



Those people had a fine and numerous breed of dogs, with 

 sharp erect ears, sharp noses, bushy tails, &c. [170] exactly like 

 those seen among the Esquimaux in Hudson's Bay and Straits. 

 They were all tethered to stones, to prevent them, as I suppose, 

 from eating the fish that were spread all over the rocks to dry. 

 I do not recollect that my companions killed or hurt one of 

 those animals ; but after we had left the tents, they often 

 wished they had taken some of those fine dogs with them. 



Though the dress, canoes, utensils, and many other articles 

 belonging to these people, are very similar to those of Hud- 



