Here there were multitudes of reindeer feeding on the _Cladina_ lichen and the Indians with Hearne killed large numbers for the food of the party, and also for their skins and the marrow in their bones.
[Footnote 2: This word is said to be a corruption or altered form of _Wishakagami[-u]_, a liquid or broth (Kri language).

The drink made from this shrub or herb (_Ledum palustre_) is now known as Labrador tea.

It is a bitter aromatic infusion.] The Indian who had volunteered to carry the canoe proved unequal to his task.

But Hearne found another of his carriers who was willing to take the burden.

In order, therefore, to be readier with his gun to shoot deer, he transferred a portion of his own load to the ex-canoe carrier.