pemican
- a variation of pemmican.
Example Sentences
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The Indians eat a great deal of green corn, pemican, and marrow fat.
From History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians by Summers, Thomas O. (Thomas Osmond)
This is not the case however with the Scotch, who have been provident enough to bring with them a supply of dried meat and pemican for a future day.
According to the parts of the country where these animals resorted, the Indians, traders and trappers, lived almost exclusively on their flesh, either in the fresh, dried or pemican state.
From Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. by Hunter, Martin
They gave us four sacs of pemican, and we set off again, on the 23d, at eight A.M.
From Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific by Franchere, Gabriel
At the Great Slave, Hudson Bay dogs were purchased, and the fleet sank to the guards with its added burden of dried fish and pemican.
From The Son of the Wolf by London, Jack
