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$2,960 per annum! What a great sum for British generosity !

Much of the back country still remains unsold, and I hope the scales will be removed from the eyes of my poor countrymen, that they may see the robberies per- petrated upon them, before they surrender another foot of territory.

From these lakes and rivers come the best furs that

are caught in Western Canada. Buyers of fur get large quantities from here. They are then shipped to New

York city, or to England. Whenever fruit is plenty, bears are also plenty, and there is much bear hunting. Before the whites came amongst us, the skins of these animals served for clothing; they are now sold from three to eight dollars apiece.

My father generally took one or two families with him when he went to hunt; all were to hunt, and place their gains into one common stock till spring, (for they were often out all winter,) when a division took place.

CHAPTER II.

IN the fall we gathered the Wild rice, and in the winter we were in the interior. Some winters we suffered most severely, on account of the depth of snow, and the cold; our wigwams were often buried in snow. We not only suffered from the snow and the cold, but

from hunger. Our party would be unable to hunt, and being far from the white settlements, We were often in