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Sketches Of The Manners And Customs Of The North-American Indians.
SKETCHES OF THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE NORTH-AMERICAN INDIANS .
(¦ From " A Journey to the Northern Ocean from Prince of Wales ' s Fort , in Hudson ' s Bay , in the Years 1769 , 1770 , 1771 , and 1772 . " ]
CONTINUED FROM P . 320 . , HTHE following relation of an Indian Woman , who lived in the wilds - " - of North America , seven months , without seeing any human face , is so extraordinaiy , that we are sure it must be entertaining to our readers ; not only as it affords indubitable proofs , how wonderfully Providence has adapted the capacities of mankind to their necessi-r
ties ; but also , that the . gentler sex are endued with as much perseverance and resolution , when circumstances call them forth , as man who boasts himself creation ' s lord . " On the eleventh of January , as some of my companions were hunting , they saw the track of a strange snow-shoe , which they followed ; and , at a considerable distance , came to a little hut , where they
discovered a young woman sitting alone . As they found that she understood their language , they brought her with them to the tents . On examination , she proved to be one of the Western Dog-ribbed Indians , who had been taken prisoner by the Athapuscow Indians in the Summer of one thousand seven hundred and seventy ; and in the following Summer , when the Indians that took her prisoner were near this part , she had eloped from them , with an intent to return to her
own country ; but the distance being so great , and having after she was taken prisoner , been carried in a canoe the whole way , the turnings and windings of the rivers and lakes were so numerous , " that she ° forgot the track ; so she built the hut in which we found her , to protect her from the weather during the Winter , and here she had resided from the first setting in of the fall . " From her account of the moons past since her elopementit
ap-, peared that she had been near seven months without seeing a human face ; during all which time she had supported herself very well by snaring partridges , rabbits , and squirrels ; she had also killed two or three beaver , and some porcupines . That she did not seem to be in want was evident , as she had a small stock of provisions by her when she was discovered , and was in good health and condition ; and I
think one of the finest women , of a real Indian , that I have seen in any part of North America . " The methods practised by this poor creature to procure a livelihood , were truly admirable ; and are great proofs that necessi ty is the real mother of invention . When the few deer-sinews that she had an opportunity of taking with her , were all expended in making , snares , and sewing her clothing , she had nothing to supply their place but
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Sketches Of The Manners And Customs Of The North-American Indians.
SKETCHES OF THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE NORTH-AMERICAN INDIANS .
(¦ From " A Journey to the Northern Ocean from Prince of Wales ' s Fort , in Hudson ' s Bay , in the Years 1769 , 1770 , 1771 , and 1772 . " ]
CONTINUED FROM P . 320 . , HTHE following relation of an Indian Woman , who lived in the wilds - " - of North America , seven months , without seeing any human face , is so extraordinaiy , that we are sure it must be entertaining to our readers ; not only as it affords indubitable proofs , how wonderfully Providence has adapted the capacities of mankind to their necessi-r
ties ; but also , that the . gentler sex are endued with as much perseverance and resolution , when circumstances call them forth , as man who boasts himself creation ' s lord . " On the eleventh of January , as some of my companions were hunting , they saw the track of a strange snow-shoe , which they followed ; and , at a considerable distance , came to a little hut , where they
discovered a young woman sitting alone . As they found that she understood their language , they brought her with them to the tents . On examination , she proved to be one of the Western Dog-ribbed Indians , who had been taken prisoner by the Athapuscow Indians in the Summer of one thousand seven hundred and seventy ; and in the following Summer , when the Indians that took her prisoner were near this part , she had eloped from them , with an intent to return to her
own country ; but the distance being so great , and having after she was taken prisoner , been carried in a canoe the whole way , the turnings and windings of the rivers and lakes were so numerous , " that she ° forgot the track ; so she built the hut in which we found her , to protect her from the weather during the Winter , and here she had resided from the first setting in of the fall . " From her account of the moons past since her elopementit
ap-, peared that she had been near seven months without seeing a human face ; during all which time she had supported herself very well by snaring partridges , rabbits , and squirrels ; she had also killed two or three beaver , and some porcupines . That she did not seem to be in want was evident , as she had a small stock of provisions by her when she was discovered , and was in good health and condition ; and I
think one of the finest women , of a real Indian , that I have seen in any part of North America . " The methods practised by this poor creature to procure a livelihood , were truly admirable ; and are great proofs that necessi ty is the real mother of invention . When the few deer-sinews that she had an opportunity of taking with her , were all expended in making , snares , and sewing her clothing , she had nothing to supply their place but