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rents, and the violence of the wind caused the 
river to overflow its banks, so that we were com- 
pletely flooded. Swarms of musquitoes succeeded 
__ the storm, and their tormenting stings, superadded 
to other inconveniences, induced us to embark, 
and, after taking a hasty supper, to pursue our 
voyage down the stream during the night. 
At six on the following morning we passed the 
Rein-DeerIslands, and at ten reached the entrance 
of the Dog River, where we halted to set the fish- 
ing nets. These were examined in the evening, 
08 to our mortification we obts inec only four 
preserved rents for supper. The latitude: of the 
mouth of Dog River, was observed 59° 52’ 16’ N. 
The nets were taken up at daylight, but they 
furnished only a solitary pike. We lost ‘no time 
in embarking, and crossed the crooked channel of 
Heras iota cae 
sternmost had its bow broken off. We-were for- 
tunately near to the shore or the disabled ‘canoe 
would have ‘sunk. The injury being repaired in 
two hours, we again embarked, and havi 
scended another rapid, arrived at the Cassette 
Portage of four hundred and sixty paces, over 
which the~cargoes and canoes were carried in 
about twenty-six minutes. We next passed 
