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was not an article of drefsj and though a petition 
was preferred to the Commiflioners, in favour of 
Mr. Dymond and myfelf, yet, for fome reafon or 
other, they could not be reftored. 
But, to return to Hudfon’s Bay. November the 
6th, the river, which is very rapid, and about a 
mile over at its mouth, was frozen fall over from 
fide to fide, fo that the people walked acrofs it to 
their tents : alfo the fame morning, a half pint glafs 
of Britifh brandy was frozen folid in the obfervatory. 
Not a bird of any kind was now to be feen at the 
factory, except now and then a folitary crow, or a 
very fmall bird about the fize of a wren ; but our 
hunters brought us home every week plenty of par- 
tridges and rabbets, and fome hares ; all of which 
are white in the winter feafon; and the legs and claws 
of the partridges are covered with feathers, in the 
fame manner as the other parts of their bodies. We 
now killed two or three hogs which captain Richards 
had been fo kind to leave with the governor, which 
before they were well opened, and cut into joints, 
were froze like a piece of ice, fo that we had nothing 
to do but hang them up in a place where they 
would remain in that ftate, and ufe them when we 
thought proper. We ufed fome of thefe, I believe, 
in the month of May, which were as fweet as they 
were the moment they were killed, and much more 
tender and delicate. One thing however mull be 
obferved, that if you road them on a fpit, or cut 
them in any manner whilft reading, all the gravy 
will run out immediately. 
In the fore -end of December, I went to one of 
the hunters tents, where I ftayed near a week. When 
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