nance. The firft thing the Indians did 

 was to take every thing out of their ca- 

 noes; and after hauling them afliore, 

 they made their wigwams. We paffed 

 this night, as generally we had done, 

 under a tree ; but what we fuffered at 

 this time is not ealily to be expreffed. I 

 had been three days at the oar without 

 any kind of nourifhment, but the wretch- 

 ed root I mentioned before. I had no 

 (hirt, as mine was rotted off by bits ; and 

 we were devoured by vermin. All my 

 cloaths confided of an old fhort grieko, 

 which is fomething like a bearikin, 

 with a piece of a waiftcoat under it, 

 which once had been of red cloth, both 

 which I had on when I was caft away ; 

 I had a ragged pair of trowfers, without 

 either fhoe or flocking. The firft thing 

 the Indians did in the morning was to 

 take their canoes to pieces : and here, for 

 the information of the reader, it will be 

 aecefiary to defcribe the ilrufture of 



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