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The Country affords flesh and fish in abundance but they prefer the former and study chiefly to live upon the fat of the land, being remarkably provident and careful of Provisions. The women altho' they drag or carry the Provisions, are very often upon lean and short allowance. Bear's flesh is scarce and consequently reckoned delicate. The women dare not touch this, otherwise as they are told they would die. [O]thers kinds of meat, such as the nose of a Moose Deer &^c are forbidden. The men likewise abstain from some pieces or part of an Animal pretending that if he happened to eat such and such, he should kill no more afterwards. Their food, is in general cleanly prepared and cooked[.] Their Habitations are circular Lodges or Tents, covered round about with dressed Animal Skins to screen them from the inclemencies of the weather, the fire is in the middle. Their dress

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