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brought in two fifli, which ferved us for 

 fupper ; and then we repofed ourfelves 

 as before. Here we remained all the 

 next day ; and the morning after em- 

 barked again, and rowed till noon \ 

 then landing, we defcried the canoes 

 of the Indian men, who had been fome 

 time expelled from an expedition they had 

 been upon. This was foon to make a 

 great alteration in theiituation of my af- 

 fairs, a prefage of which I could read in 

 the melancholy countenance of rny 

 young hoftefs. She endeavoured to ex- 

 prefs herfelf in very earneft terms to 

 me ; but I had not yet acquired a com- 

 petent knowledge of the Indian lan- 

 guage to underftand her. 



As foon as the men were landed, (he 

 and the old Indian woman went up, not 

 without fome marks of dread upon 

 them, to aji elderly Indian man, whofe 

 remarkable furly and ftern countenance 

 was well calculated to raife fuch fenfa- 



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