Sir George Simpson states that at Athabasca Lake, in 1820, he was one of a party of twelve who ate twenty-two geese and three ducks at a single meal.

But, as he says, they had been three whole days without food.

The Saskatchewan folk, however, known of old as the Gens de Blaireaux--"The People of the Badger Holes"-- were not behind their congeners.

That man of weight and might, our old friend, Chief-factor Belanger--drowned, alas, many years ago with young Simpson at Sea Falls--once served out to thirteen men a sack of pemmican weighing ninety pounds.

It was enough for three days; but, there and then, they sat down and consumed it all at a single meal, not, it must be added, without some subsequent and just pangs of indigestion.