_The Complaint of a forsaken Indian Woman_.

[XXI.] When a Northern Indian, from sickness, is unable to continue his journey with his companions, he is left behind, covered over with deer-skins, and is supplied with water, food, and fuel, if the situation of the place will afford it.

He is informed of the track which his companions intend to pursue, and if he be unable to follow, or overtake them, he perishes alone in the desert; unless he should have the good fortune to fall in with some other tribes of Indians.

The females are equally, or still more, exposed to the same fate.

See that very interesting work, Hearne's _Journey from Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean_.