to our wants could be found upon it 5 

 yet, unpromifing as this profpeft was, 

 and though little fuccour could be ex- 

 pefted from this quarter, I could not 

 help, as I ftrolled along fhore from the 

 reft, calling my eyes towards the fea, 

 Continuing thus to look out, I thought 

 I faw fomething now and then upon 

 the top of a fea that looked black, 

 which upon obferving Hill more in- 

 tently, I imagined at laft to be a canoe ; 

 but reflecting afterwards how unufual 

 it was for Indians to venture out in fo 

 mountainous a fea, and at fuch a dif- 

 tance from the land, I concluded myfelf 

 to be deceived. However, its nearer ap- 

 proach convinced me, beyond all doubt, 

 of its being a canoe ; but that it could 

 not put in any where hereabouts, but in- 

 tended for fome other part of the coaft. 

 I ran back as faft as I could to my com- 

 panions, and acquainted them with what 

 1 had feen. The defpondency they were 



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