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that were impafTable to any creature but 

 an Indian. All that we could learn 

 from Emanuel relative to his efcape was, 

 that he took the firfl opportunity of 

 leaving them ; which was upon their 

 putting into a bay fomewhere to the 

 weftward. 



We had but one gun among us, and 

 that was a fmall fowling-piece of mine ; 

 no ammunition but a few charges of 

 powder I had about me ; and as the 

 Indian was very deiirous of returning 

 to the place where he had left his wife 

 and canoe, Captain Cheap defired I 

 would go with him and watch over him 

 all night, to prevent his getting away. 

 Accordingly I fet out with him ; and 

 when he and his family betook them- 

 felves to reft in the little wigwam, they 

 had made for that purpofe, I kept my 

 ftation as centinel over them all night. 



The next morning captain Cheap, Mr. 

 JJamilton, and the furgeon, joined us : 



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