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the trees, the Indians must have known the act of extracting this luxery from the forest from an early date of their history.-A very good kind of potatoe (wild?) is raised here and the mode of preserving which was entirely new to us. The potatoes which are of an oblong shape, and not larger than a man's thumb, are partially boiled, and carefully peeled while hot, without breaking the pulp, and strung like so many beads, upon a twine or tough thread of bark, and then hung in festoons on the ridge pole of the Wigwam, over the smoke of the fire, where they become thoroughly dry. This process renders the potatoe fit for transportation and use during the severest frost without injury. The squaws take great interest in preparing this article of food, which is about the only vegetable they pretend to cultivate-This district is tolerably well provided with deer, beaver, otter, martin, mink, muskrat, ducks of various kinds, fish, teal, wild geese, and partridges. Deer, however, are not so plentiful as further south. - Winter usually sets in about the 20th October in the katakittekon country.

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