McKenzie, James. Some Account of the King's Posts, the Labrador Coast, and the Island of Anticosti by an Indian Trader Residing there Several Years with a Description of the Natives and the Journal of a trip through those Countries in 1808 by the Same Person. An electronic transcription. MFTP #0017

cause of it to get rid of which they fasten a stripe of net round their necks. When they have nothing to eat they Say Il fait noir but in the Spring of the year when they wallow in plenty of wild fowl and no longer stand in need of the assistance of the Company's store they kick up their heels and fire a broadside for the Bourgeois one for the Clerk and another for the Engagés[.]

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