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Straw or rather Hay and Put to dry – when it is perfectly dried they fix the Horns which were severed from the Head in their Proper Place, and then go hunting[.] [T]hey run their arm in this Skin which is So well arranged thus appears almost as natural itself as the Animal[.] [W]hen they See a drove of Carriboux at a distance, they wave this Skin & make the cries & tricks of a live Carribou which they bring So close close to them that it is sometimes dangerous for the Hunter, for a Male will often Shart upon the performer – taking him for a female[.] Their modes of Hunting Beaver is to make wooden traps upon the Lodges in the Fall, and in winter they trench the Beaver, all other Animals they take in Snares[.]

Lakes

Lakes are numerous on the North Side of the Grand River. The Principal ones & those which afford the best Fisheries are the Great Willow, Porcupine, and Long Lakes[.] The first two are connected by a Narrow Strait[.] The latter is near Bear Lake from which it is seperated by a narrow Neck of Land only[.] All these Lakes empties their outlets into the Grand River[.] The Former is about 40 Leagues form this Place: in a Northern direction the Latter is at a much greater distance & is also Nort[h.] These Places are fishing abodes for many families of the Inhabitants of the Country[.] None of these Bodies of water are in themselves of any considerab[le] length or Breadth[.] The Long Lake is supposed to be the Longest & yet it is computed at but about twenty or twenty five Leagues Long & about three Broad[.]

On the South Side of the Grand River there are only two of any Note, the first is the Trout Lake, not far in land from the Entrance of the

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