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The Origin of the Man in the Moon according to some of the Beaver Indians' Ideas in Mackenzie's River Department.

In the primitive ages of the world, there was a man and his wife, who had no children. The former was very singular in his manner of living. Being an excellent hunter, he lived entirely upon the blood of the Animals he killed. This circumstance displeased his wife, who secretly determined to play him a trick. Accordingly one day the husband went out a hunting, and left orders with his wife to boil some blood in a Kettle, so as to be ready for supper against his return. When the time of his expected return was drawing nigh, his wife pierced a vein with an awl in the left arm, and drew a copious quantity of blood, which, that the husband might not discover it, she mixed with a greater quantity of the blood of Moose Deer, and prepared

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