1743 J. Isham Observ. Hudsons Bay (1949) 156 Pimmegan as the Natives styles itt, is some of the Ruhiggan fatt and cranberries mixd up togeather.

1780 Cumberland House Jrnls. in Publ. Hudson's Bay Rec. Soc. (1952) 15 128 I gave them 30 lbs. of pimmacon, 3 Sturgeon, tobacco and powder according to the number of Indians.

1801 A. Mackenzie Voy. St. Lawrence Pref. 121 The provision called Pemican, on which the Chepewyans and other savages in the N. of America chiefly subsist in their journeys.

1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha xi. 143 Then on pemican they feasted, Pemican and buffalo marrow.

1940 Geogr. Jrnl. 95 282 Usually they [sc. the dogs] were fed on a pound of pemmican each per day, but early in May we met an Eskimo bear-hunting party and obtained meat from them.

1961 H. MacLennan Rivers of Canada 58 This pork and pemmican eater, this man who could drink under the table most of his fellow members of the Beaver Club in Montreal.

2001 L. Erdrich Last Rep. Miracles at Little No Horse viii. 149 The sheer volume of labor it took to skin the beasts and butcher them, dress the meat, and preserve the extra in the form of pemmican.

1859 Southern Literary Messenger 28 445/2 ‘Jane’ is, of course, the Heroine, in brief Pemmican Form, however, ready to be diluted, enlarged, Amplified, in short, Spread by the Novelist's art.

1870 T. H. Huxley Lay Serm. (1874) xii. 257 A sort of intellectual pemmican.

1888 Spectator 8 Sept. 1211/2 It [sc. Sir F. Bramwell's Address] is really a wonderful specimen of thought and knowledge, reduced to pemmican.

1900 Athenæum 8 Dec. 749/2 A certain tendency to what may be described as the pemmican style.

1994 R. Davies Cunning Man 187 Art is always in peril at universities, where there are so many people..who love art less than argument, and dote upon a text that provides the nutritious pemmican on which scholars love to chew.

1837 T. Hook Jack Brag I. vi. 165 And if he had seen all the dæmons of the Hartz Forest pemmican'd into one plump lady, he could not have felt more horror and dismay.

1839 T. Hook in New Monthly Mag. 55 1 So elaborated a history,..which..might be Pemmicaned into a comparatively few pages.