.lOlRNEY TO THE SIIORKS 



I'i'^ Routo, (which he said was the shortest and 

 A, and abundant in animals, was very delec- 

 ..\ though the relative prints wrtv sullieiently 

 ■ ' racteristic, had we ii-t iH).-'>ess(Hi a better 

 A<\ He had never been at the sea ; and knew 

 • Ml- abdut tlie inoutli o( the Copper-Mine 

 • r. Ill tiie evenini: lie made his young men 

 •e, ami soiiietiincs aeeonipanied them himself. 

 y had Ibur feathers in each hand. When one 

 "imeneed moving ina cireuhir form, hfting both 

 :<ri at the same time, similar to jumping side- 

 ways. AtUT a short time a second and a third 

 joined, and afterwards the whole band was 

 danrin-. M.nie in a state of nudity, others half 

 dressed. >in-in- an inunusieal wild air with (I 

 supp(v^.\« appropriate words; the particular 

 Sfxuids i-t wlurh v.orr. ha I ha ! ha! uttered voci- 

 t<'ro;i-ly.:ind with uTeat disti^rtion of countenance, 

 and p.Huliar attitude of body, the feathers being 

 always kopt in a tremulous motion. The ensuing 

 day I made the chief acquainted with the object 

 ot our nussi(^n. and recommended him to keep at 

 IH\i';e witli his neighbouring tribes, and to con- 

 duel himself with attention and friendship towards 

 the whites. I then gave him a medal, telling him 

 it was the picture of the King, whom they em- 

 phatically term " their Great Father." 

 " November IS.— We observed two mock moons 



