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of these, such parts as we should require to work 

 the observations for latitude and longitude. I 

 also promised, as an excitement to the efforts in 

 hunting, my gun to St. Germain, and an ample 

 compensation to Adam, or any of the other men 

 who should kill any animals. Mr. Hood, on this 

 occasion, lent his gun to Michel, the Iroquois, who 

 was very eager in the chase, and often successful. 

 September 14.— This morning the officers being 

 assembled round a small fire, Perrault presented 

 each of us with a small piece of meat which he 

 had saved from his allowance. It was received 

 with great thankfulness, and such an act of self- 

 denial and kindness, being totally unexpected in 

 a Canadian voyager, filled our eyes with tears. 

 In directing our course to a river issuing from 

 the lake, we met Credit, who communicated the 

 joyful intelligence of his having killed two deer 

 in the morning. We instantly halted, and having 

 shared the deer that was nearest to us, prepared 

 breakfast. After which, the other deer was sent 

 for, and we went down to the river, which was 

 about three hundred yards wide, and flowed with 

 great velocity through a broken rocky channel. 

 Having searched for a part where the current 

 was most smooth, the canoe was placed in the 

 water at the head of a rapid, and St. Germain, 

 Solomon Belanger, and I, embarked in order to 

 cross. We went from the shore very well, but in 



