As I only saw a few straggling parties of them during short intervals, and under unfavourable circumstances of sickness and famine, I am unable to give, from personal observation, any detail of their manners and customs; and must refer the reader, to Dr.
Richardson's account of them, in the following chapter.

That gentleman, during his longer residence at the post, had many opportunities of seeing them, and acquiring their language.
_January 17_ .-- This morning the sporting part of our society had rather a novel diversion: intelligence having been brought that a wolf had borne away a steel trap, in which he had been caught, a party went in search of the marauder, and took two English bull dogs and a terrier, which had been brought into the country this season.

On the first sight of the animal the dogs became alarmed, and stood barking at a distance, and probably would not have ventured to advance, had they not seen the wolf fall by a shot from one of the gentlemen; they then, however, went up, and behaved courageously, and were enraged by the bites they received.

The wolf soon died of its wounds, and the body was brought to the house, where a drawing of it was taken by Mr.Hood, and the skin preserved by Dr.Richardson.Its general features bore a strong resemblance to many of the dogs about the fort, but it was larger and had a more ferocious aspect.

Mr.Back and I were too much occupied in preparing for our departure on the following day to join this excursion.
The position of Cumberland House, by our observations, is, latitude 53 deg.
56' 40" N.; longitude 102 deg.