. 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 flruded, they might foon be replaced, without any other trouble or ezpence than a little labour; but this fuppofition can only hold good in places where, proper materials areeafily procured, which was npt the cafe here: if it had, they would not have been an ob
. 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 flruded, they might foon be replaced, without any other trouble or ezpence than a little labour; but this fuppofition can only hold good in places where, proper materials areeafily procured, which was npt the cafe here: if it had, they would not have been an objedl of plunder. In the midft of a foreft of trees, the wood that would make a Northern Indian a bow and a few arrows, or in- deed a bow and arrows ready made, are not of much value; no more than the man's trouble that makes them: but carry that bow and arrows feveral hundred'miles from any woods and place where tbofe are the only weapons in ufe, their intrinfic value will be found to increafe, in the £ime proportion as the materials which are made are lefs attainable*. To do Matonabbee juftice on this occafion, I muft fay that he endeavoured as much as poffible to perfuade his countrymen from taking either fiirrs, clothing, or bdws^ from the Copper Indi* ans, without making them fome fatisfadory re* turn; but if he did not encourage, neither did he endeavour to hinder them from taking as many women as they pleafed. Indeed, the Copper Indian women feem to be much efteem- ed by our Northern traders; for what reafon I know not, as they are in reality the fame people in every refpe^l; and their language differs not fo much as the dialects of fome of the neareft counties in England do from each other. It « 8c« Foftledxway t on the attiele of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hearne, Sa
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