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 ocean for the native cranberry and for clams. These later were dried and smoked and so cured, with an abundant sprinkling of sand, were probably the most indestructible food known.

Along or near the Coast were also the favorite hunting grounds for elk. The meat of the elk and deer was cut in strips and dried over the fire, making what was known as jerked meat. Farther up the river the sweet, glutinous root of the camas was dried and packed for Winter food.

The black bear is a cunning berry eater, and there is no more curious woodland sight than that of this big bear sitting upon his haunches drawing down huckleberry bushes and with flexible lips and tongue picking off the tiny berries one by one; but even the black bear is a dullard in gathering berries compared with the In-