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carried on amongst themselves, although sometimes at a reduced price from what it might procure at the Establishment: so much for the attraction of novelty or sometimes with a view to procure a particular object. The nature of the Country and the Inland situation of its produce in Fur are great checks upon Industry. The former affording all kinds of excellent fresh water fish and plenty of Rein Deer, which makes it very easy for the Natives to live very independaent of of traffic in general, and their Inland situation from the Post and particularly the poorness of the Country in Fur, Beaver especially, are but small inducements to rouse the Natural inactivity of the Natives, who like most poor Tribes, particularly in fish Countries, are good economists in every respect, excepting in the article of food, of

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