ᎠᎦᏗᏓ ᎨᏒ ᎤᏓᏔᏅ, ᏫᏥᎢᎦ ᎨᏒ ᏘᎳ, ᎠᏎᏃ ᎦᏲᏟᏉ ᎢᎾᎨ ᎡᎯ ᏗᎪᏩᏛᏗ, ᎠᏂᏃᎯᎵᏙ ᏚᏂᏒᏅ ᏯᎾᏏ ᏃᎴ ᎠᏫ ᎢᏳᏂᏍᏗ ᏃᎴ ᎠᏫ ᎦᏣᏄᎳ ᎠᎾᏓᏒᎲᏍᎦ, ᏰᎵ ᏧᏒᎯᏓ ᎤᎧᎭᏲᏓ ᎠᏓᏁᏢ ᎣᏥᎩᏍᎪ.
There is a great deal of mast, mostly chestnut, but little or no game to be seen as it has all been hunted out to near barrenness, buffalo and elk thirty years gone and deer failing fast, and many nights we have had to make do with our dry provisions.