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then said: "You wliite men pray; we poor Indians do not know want 

 it is, but we hope 3'ou will entreat the Great Spirit to remove the sick- 

 ness from amongst us." To which the Governor replied that they should 

 certainly be remembered in the prayers of the whites. He then ordered 

 them a keg of rum, and they went away perfectly happy, and highly 

 pleased that the blanket was accepted, and that they had made their 

 Father's bed. 



11th. — About 9 o'clock left our encampment, embarked, and soon got 

 out of the lake, paddled up the river about three miles, and then got into 

 another river, and al)0ut two o'clock got to the landing place at the red 

 pine fort. His Excellency finding that John Vincall, the man who cut his 

 toe on the 2nd, could not walk, desired Mr. Givens, his servant, and me 

 to remain with him, and that upon his arrival at York he would send a 

 horse to meet us at the old carrying place, for the man to ride ; therefore 

 after dividing our little stock of provision and dining together we parted ; 

 the Governor and the rest of the party going to York by a new route, 

 Givens, McEwen, Vincall, and myself remaining. It beginning to rain 

 we encamped there that night. 



12th — Got into our canoe before sunrise, paddled down the river till 

 between 8 and 9 o'clock, then put on shore to eat breakfast, which having 

 done, re-embarked and made the best of our way to the place where we had 

 encamped on the night of the 28th of September, which we reached about 

 sunset. Saw many ducks, but so wild that we could not get within shot of 

 them ; killed only one mud hen. 



1 3th — Mr. Givens and his servant went out very early in the morning to 

 hunt ducks. Vincall and I remained behind to pound and boil Indian corn 

 for our breakfast They returned about two o'clock with two ducks only. 

 About half an hour before sunset Mr. Givens and I went up the river to 

 get some birch bark to make torches with to spear fish. On our way up 

 fired repeatedly at ducks without any success ; killed one but could not find 

 it. Having put on shore about two miles up the river and got a sufficiency 

 of bark returned to our encampment at 8 o'clock. 



I4th— Got up at day break, and while preparing to go to hunt found 

 that we had but two quarts of corn, and a small piece of pork remaining. 

 Mr. Givens and I therefore resolved to go back to the Indian village, to get 

 some supplies. After eating about a pint of corn and a small piece of pork 

 embarked into our canoe, and shortly after leaving camp, the wind being 

 fair, hoisted sail. We were very soon after forced to lower it, as it blew 

 too fresh ; cut otf about two feet of the mast, reefed the sail, and hoisted it 

 again. We shortly after met the Great Tail and his family in two canoes 



