. Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819, 20, 21, and 22 [microform]. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. It 'frl i ^ ii A JOURNEY TO THE SHORES term choke-cherri/ applied to it. The Crees call it tatcquoy-meena, and esteem it to be, when dried and bruised, a good addition to pemmican. The other species is a less elegant shrub, but is said to bear a bright red cherry, of a pleasant sweet taste. Its Cree name is passee-awej/-meenan, and it is known to occur as far north as Great Slave Lake. The most esteemed fruit of the country, however, is the
. Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819, 20, 21, and 22 [microform]. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. It 'frl i ^ ii A JOURNEY TO THE SHORES term choke-cherri/ applied to it. The Crees call it tatcquoy-meena, and esteem it to be, when dried and bruised, a good addition to pemmican. The other species is a less elegant shrub, but is said to bear a bright red cherry, of a pleasant sweet taste. Its Cree name is passee-awej/-meenan, and it is known to occur as far north as Great Slave Lake. The most esteemed fruit of the country, however, is the produce of the aronia ovalis. Under the name of meesasscootoomeena it is a favourite dish at most of the Indian feasts, and mixed with pem- mican, it renders that greasy food actually palatable. A great variety of currants and gooseberries are also mentioned by the na- tives, under the name of sappoom-meena, but we only found three species in the neighbourhood of Cumberland House. The straw- berry, called by the Crees otei-meena, or heart-berry, is found in abundance, and rasps are common on the sandy banks of the rivers. The fruits hitherto mentioned fall in the autumn, but the following berries remained hanging on the bushes in the spring, and are con- sidered as much mellowed by exposure to the colds of winter. The red whortleberry (arbutus vitis idea) is found every where, but is most abundant in rocky places. It is aptly termed by the Crees weesaiDgum-meena, sour-berry. The common cranberry (oxycoccos palustris,) is distinguished from the preceding by its growing on moist sphagnous spots, and is hence called maskago-meena, swamp- berry. The American guelder rose, whose fruits so strongly resem- bles the cranberry, is also common. There are two kinds of it, (viburnum oxi/coccos, and edule,) one termed by the natives peepoon- meena, winter-berry, and the other mongsoorineena, moose-berry. There is also a berry of a bluish white colour, the produce of the white cornel tree,
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