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ly on fish, which they take with hooks and lines, 

 or in nets. Their hooks they frequently obtain 

 from us ; and when this is impracticable, they make 

 them, by inserting a piece of bone obliquely into 

 a piece of wood, and reducing the upper 

 end of the bone to a point. Their lines 

 are either single thongs of leather, tied to- 

 gether, or they are braided of the bark of the 

 willow. The Assiniboins, Rapid Indians, Black 

 feet Indians and those Crees who remain in the 

 strong thick woods, or on the large plains, live 

 upon the flesh of the buffaloe, moose, reef deer, 

 ant^pe, bear, &c. which they either Jpoil or 

 roast. Those of them who can obtain*#rass or 

 copper or tin kettles from us, use them for bail- 

 ing their food ; and hang them over the fire. 

 Those who cannot obtain such kettles, use those 

 which are made of bark. Although water might 

 be made to boil in these bark kettles over the 

 fire, yet they would not be durable ; and there- 

 fore, this operation is more commonly performed, 

 by throwing into them, heated stones. Those 

 Indians, however, who have only bark kettles, 

 generally roast their meat. This they do, by 

 fixing one end of a stick, that is sharpened at both 

 ends, into the ground, at a little distance from the 

 fire, with its top, on which the meat is fixed, in- 

 clining towards the fire. On this stick, the meat 



