Indeed, they were not worth eating, and to kill them was a sin.

But when were there ever scruples over food on Peace River, that theatre of mighty feats of gormandism?
I have already hinted at those masterpieces of voracity for which the region is renowned; yet the undoubted facts related around our camp-fires, and otherwise, a few of which follow, almost beggar belief.

Mr.Young, of our party, an old Hudson's Bay officer, knew of sixteen trackers who, in a few days, consumed eight bears, two moose, two bags of pemmican, two sacks of flour, and three sacks of potatoes.

Bishop Grouard vouched for four men eating a reindeer at a sitting.

Our friend, Mr.d'Eschambault, once gave Oskinnequ--"The Young Man"-- six pounds of pemmican, who ate it all at a meal, washing it down with a gallon of tea, and then complained that he had not had enough.