banks, and had a moft uncomfortable 

 lodging, it being a perfect fwamp ; and 

 we had nothing to cover us, though it 

 rained very hard. The Indians were 

 little better off than we, as there was no 

 wood here to make their wigwams ; fo 

 that all they could do was to prop 

 up the bark they carry in the bot- 

 tom of their canoes with their oars, and 



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flicker themfelves as well as they could 

 to leeward of it. They, knowing the 

 difficulties that were to be encountered 

 here, had provided themfelves with fome 

 feal ; but we had not the leaft morfel to 

 eat, after the heavy fatigues of the day, 

 excepting a fort of root we faw fome ox : 

 the Indians make ufe of, which was 

 very difagreeable to the taile. We la- 

 boured all the next day againil the 

 ilream, and fared as we had done the day 

 before. The next day brought us to 

 the carrying-place. Here was plenty of 

 wood ; but nothing to be got for fufte- 



nance. 



