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among them. The facility of procuring 

 goods, since the commercial opposition 

 commenced, has given great encouragement 

 to their native indolence of disposition, as 

 is manifested by the difference in the amount 

 of their collections of furs and provision 

 between the late and former years. From 

 six to eight hundred packs of furs used 

 formerly to be sent from this department, 

 now the return seldom exceeds half that 

 amount. The decrease in the provision has 

 been already mentioned. 



The Northern Indians suppose that they 

 originally sprang from a dog ; and about 

 five years ago, a superstitious fanatic so 

 strongly pressed upon their minds the im- 

 propriety of employing these animals, to 

 which they were related, for purposes of 

 labour, that they universally resolved against 

 using them any more, and, strange as it 

 may seem, destroyed them. They have now 

 to drag every thing themselves on sledges. 

 This laborious task falls most heavily on 

 the women; nothing can more shock the 

 feelings of a person accustomed to civilized 



