McLoughlin, John. The Indians from Fort William to Lake of the Woods, ca. 1806. An electronic transcription. MFTP #0023
As to those that have no Rice in their lands they live on flesh and fish but the best season for good cheer is the winter as it is the principal season for hunting all kinds of Animals and by a strange Contrarity tis then they are more subject to starve the food it is true is better but not in such Quantity as in other Seasons which is sufficiently prov[']d by this that we hear often of Indians starving to death in the winter but never in the Summer[.] The Reason is very Evident the means of subsistan[cel are diminish'd the fatigue is greater the weather colder – which causes a dimunition of food to be more sensibly felt[.]
[In pencil, on the bottom left of page] Reviewed 18th May 1840.
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