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his father fhewed little concern about 

 it, A day or two after we put to fea 

 again, and crofled the great bay I men- 

 tioned we had been to the bottom of, 

 when we firfl hauled away to the weft- 

 ward. The land here was very low and 

 fandy,withfomethinglike the mouth of a 

 river which difcharged itfelf into the fea ; 

 and which had been taken no notice of 

 by us before, as it was fo (hallow that 

 the Indians were obliged to take every 

 thing out of their canoes, and carry it 

 over the neck of land, and then haul the 

 boats over into a river, which at this 

 part of it was very broad, more refem- 

 bling a lake than a river. We rowed up 

 it for four or five leagues, and then took 

 into a branch of it, that ran firft to the 

 eaftward, and then to the northward : 

 here it became much narrower, and the 

 ftream exceffively rapid, fo that we made 

 but little way, though we worked very 

 hard. At night we landed upon its 



L 3 banks, 



