During the previous winter, they were told, the Indians suffered very much for lack of food, game of all sorts being scarce.

They were forced to boil and eat the moss growing on the trees, and they cut down the pine-trees for the sake of the small nut to be found in the pine-cones.

Here they were met by an old friend, Neeshnepahkeeook and the Shoshonee, who had acted as interpreter for them.

The journal says:-- "We gave Neeshnepahkeeook and his people some of our game and horse-beef, besides the entrails of the deer, and four fawns which we found inside of two of them.

They did not eat any of them perfectly raw, but the entrails had very little cooking; the fawns were boiled whole, and the hide, hair, and entrails all consumed.