All knowledge can be put into a kind of pemican, so that we can have it condensed. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)
And it centered around things like corn, wild rice, buffalo, turkeys, wild game, berries and processed foods such as pemican. ❋ Unknown (2007)
-- Then again there is the PUFFER AND CONDENSER, wherein, if matter be wanting in the work, a prefacial waggon is put before the chapteral pony, the former acting the part of pemican, or concentrated essence, the latter representing the liquid necessary for cooking it; the whole forming a _potage au lecteur_, known among professional men as "soldier's broth." ❋ Henry A. Murray (N/A)
Though the flesh of both of these creatures has a strong and peculiar flavor, it was found to be an agreeable change from pemican and other preserved material. ❋ Jewett Castello Gilson (N/A)
-- Current bearing us rapidly to westward -- caught a sea cow, and had it converted into pemican. ❋ Paul Adrien (N/A)
One night when I came home from a rabbit hunt, I found my mother and father packing up pemican and jerked meat as though for a journey. ❋ Unknown (1901)
We ate a little of the pemican, helped each other to load, and again we started. ❋ Unknown (1901)
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. ❋ Jack London (1896)
She made him moccasins -- seven pairs; and gave him also a sack of food -- pemican, dried meat, and back fat. ❋ George Bird Grinnell (1893)
Food was placed before the guests -- pemican and berries and dried back fat -- and after they had eaten the pipe was lighted and passed around the circle. ❋ George Bird Grinnell (1893)
Many women came and made them presents of food, dried meat, pemican, and berries. ❋ George Bird Grinnell (1893)
When he was going off, some half - breeds wished to kill him -- they asked us to take pemican to an ambush ahead. ❋ Unknown (1860)
Mr. M'Donnell having heard that several hundred sacks of pemican were laid up in a storehouse under the care of a Mr. Pritchard, sent to require their surrender. ❋ Unknown (1854)
A sack of pemican, or pounded meat, which we found in a cache, where it had been left for us, was a great acquisition, as our supplies were nearly exhausted. ❋ Unknown (1854)
After regaling ourselves with pemican and some fresh venison, we set out again, leaving two of the party to take care of the lame man, and went on about eight or nine miles farther to encamp. ❋ Unknown (1854)
They gave us four sacks of pemican, and we set off again, on the 23d, at eight A. M. ❋ Unknown (1854)
Messrs. M'Donald and M'Kenzie had taken this route, and had left for us half a sack of pemican in a cache, at the mouth of the river ❋ Unknown (1854)
In consequence of these mutual representations, it was agreed that one half of the pemican should be restored, and the other half remain for the use of the colonists. ❋ Unknown (1854)
