It has been erected for the convenience of the Copper and Dog-Rib Indians who generally bring such a quantity of reindeer meat that the residents are enabled, out of their superabundance, to send annually some provision to the fort at Moose-Deer Island.

They also occasionally procure moose and buffalo meat, but these animals are not numerous on this side of the lake.

Few furs are collected.

Les poissons inconnus, trout, pike, carp, and white-fish are very plentiful, and on these the residents principally subsist.

Their great supply of fish is procured in the latter part of September and the beginning of October, but there are a few taken daily in the nets during the winter.