They ate pounded meat called pemican and the wild rice that grew by the river-bank and golden-yellow cakes of Indian corn.
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.
Pemican is made by pounding the dried meat, and mixing it with boiled fat, and is then put into bags made of buffaloe skin, which weigh about eighty and a hundred pounds each.
When I needed a change from pork or bacon, I got some pemican from the Indians.
Pemican is buffalo meat cut in thin slices, without any fat, and dried in the sun without salting.
She then fed him with a mixture of pemican and dried fruits made into a moist soft paste, and let him eat all he could of it.
Then they deposited some ears of corn or some pemican at the foot of the tree or scaffold.
M'Donald and M'Kenzie had taken this route, and had left for us half a sack ofpemican in a cache, at the mouth of the river Pembina.
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.
Pemican is buffalo flesh, dried in flakes and then pounded between two stones.
These are put into a bag made of the animal's hide, with the hair on the outside, and well mixed with melted grease; the top of the bag is then sewed up, and the pemican allowed to cool.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pemican" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
