. A journey from Prince of Wales's Fort, in Hudson's Bay, to the northern ocean [microform] : undertaken by order of the Hudson's Bay Company for the discovery of copper mines, a north west passage, &c. in the years 1769, 1770, 1771 & 1772. Indians of North America; Natural history; Indiens; Sciences naturelles. A JOURNEY TO THE , ground, and are feldoin found at any great diftance from the woods. Though they are a beaft of great magnitude, and apparently of a very unwieldy in- a^ive ftrud^Ure, yet they climb the rocks with great eafeand agility, and are nearly as fure- footed as a goa
. A journey from Prince of Wales's Fort, in Hudson's Bay, to the northern ocean [microform] : undertaken by order of the Hudson's Bay Company for the discovery of copper mines, a north west passage, &c. in the years 1769, 1770, 1771 & 1772. Indians of North America; Natural history; Indiens; Sciences naturelles. A JOURNEY TO THE , ground, and are feldoin found at any great diftance from the woods. Though they are a beaft of great magnitude, and apparently of a very unwieldy in- a^ive ftrud^Ure, yet they climb the rocks with great eafeand agility, and are nearly as fure- footed as a goat: like it too, they will feed on anything; though they feem fondeft ofgrafs, yet in Winter, when that article cannot be had in fufficient quantity, they will eat mofs, or any other herbage they can find, as alfo the tops of willows and the tender branches of the pine tree. They take the bull in Auguft, and bring forth their young the latter end of May, or beginning 6f Ju::e; and they never have more than one at i time. ' The mu(k-ox, when full grown, is as large as the generality, or at lead as the middling fize, of Englilh black cattle*; but their legs, though large, are not fo long; nor is their tail longer than that of * Mr. Dragge fays, in his voyage, vol. ii. p. 260, that the mwlk-ox ii lower than a deer, but larger as to belly and quarters; which is very far Ctom the truth; they are of the fue I hs've here defaibed them, and the Indian always eftimate the fleOi of a fulUgrown cow to be equal in quan< tity to thiee deer. I am forry alfo to bq obliged to contiadiA my friend Mr. Graham, who fays that the fle(h of this animiil is carried on fledges to Prince of Wales's Foit, to the amount of three or four thoqfand pounds an- nually. To the amount of near one thoufand pounds may hare been purchafcd from the natives in fome particular years, but it mote frequent- ly happens that not ao ounce is brought one year out of five. In hd, it is by no means efleemed by the company's
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