However the flavour of good moose meat will survive any process that it undergoes in their hands except smoking.
Having provided myself with some drawing materials I amused the Indians with a sketch of the interior of the tent and its inhabitants.

An old woman who was relating with great volubility an account of some quarrel with the traders at Cumberland House broke off from her narration when she perceived my design, supposing perhaps that I was employing some charm against her; for the Indians have been taught a supernatural dread of particular pictures.

One of the young men drew with a piece of charcoal a figure resembling a frog on the side of the tent and, by significantly pointing at me, excited peals of merriment from his companions.

The caricature was comic, but I soon fixed their attention by producing my pocket compass and affecting it with a knife.

They have great curiosity which might easily be directed to the attainment of useful knowledge.