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that he knew the Indian it belonged to, and would carry 
it to him. His tribe is not so large fyut he may know 
all its effects. We proceeded to make a fire and cook 
our dinner amid some pines, where our predecessors had 
done the same, while the Indian busied himself about 
his moose-hide on the shore, for he said that he thought 
it a good plan for one to do all the cooking, i. e. I sup¬ 
pose if that one were not himself. A peculiar ever¬ 
green overhung our fire, which at first glance looked like 
a pitch pine (P. rigida ;), with leaves little more than an 
inch long, spruce-like, but we found it to be the Pinus 
PanJcsiana ,—“ Banks’s, or the Labrador Pine,” also called 
Scrub Pine, Gray Pine, &c., a new tree to us. These 
must have been good specimens, for several were thirty 
or thirty-five feet high. Richardson found it forty feet 
high and upward, and states that the porcupine feeds on 
its bark. Here also grew the Red Pine (Pinus resinosa). 
I saw where the Indians had made canoes in a little 
secluded hollow in the woods, on the top of the rock, 
where they were out of the wind, and large piles of 
whittlings remained. This must have been a favorite re¬ 
sort for their ancestors, and, indeed, we found here the 
point of an arrow-head, such as they have not used for 
two centuries and now know not how to make. The 
Indian, picking up a stone, remarked to me, “ That very 
strange lock (rock).” It was a piece of hornstone, which 
I told him his tribe had probably brought here centuries 
before to make arrow-heads of. He also picked up a 
yellowish curved bone by the side of our fireplace and 
asked me to guess what it was. It was one of the upper 
incisors of a beaver, on which some party had feasted 
within a year or two. I found also most of the teeth, 
and the skull, &c. We here dined on fried moose-meat. 
