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station, and the perpetrators of the murder were 

 finally hunted down by the people of their own 

 tribe, — a melancholy but salutary lesson not 

 only to the red man but to the white. 



It was now the middle of October, and up to 

 this time a few snow birds and four white 

 partridges were all that had been seen. The 

 deer too, as well as the fish, seemed to have 

 taken their departure. The Indians, satis- 

 fied with the pittance doled out to them, and 

 having been supplied with hooks and bits of 

 nets, quitted us one after another, leaving only 

 some of the elder ones, from two of whom I 

 learnt, that they had been further down the 

 Thlew-ee-choh than any others of their tribe. 

 They described it favourably, and asserted that 

 it was entirely free from falls, though sufficiently 

 interrupted by rapids. The value of this assertion 

 will hereafter be seen. Their idea of its course 

 was, that it ran due north, or, if any thing, rather 

 to the eastward, though, from some blue moun- 

 tains often mentioned in the discourse as the limit 

 of their knowledge, it was represented as taking 

 a course to the left. Their statements, more- 

 over, corroborated the previous opinions given 

 of the The-lew, which was said to flow through 

 a low marshy tract, connected with an estuary, 

 opening to the sea by a narrow channel, the 

 shores of which were lined by Esquimaux. On 



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