6 
1769. 
Qe pone 
November. 
2gth. 
30th. 
A JOURNEY TO THE 
our wants, as we had to provide for feveral wo- 
men and children who were with us. 
Chawchinahaw finding that this kind of treat- 
ment was not likely to complete his defign, and 
that we were not to be ftarved into compliance, 
at length influenced feveral of the beft Northern 
Indians to defert in the night, who took with 
them feveral bags of my ammunition, fome 
pieces of iron work, fuch as hatchets, ice chiflels, 
files &c. as well as feveral other ufeful articles. 
When I became acquainted with this piece of 
villany, I alked Chawchinahaw the reafon of fuch 
behaviour. To which he anfwered, that he 
knew nothing of the affair: but as that was the 
cafe, it would not be prudent, he faid, for us to 
proceed any farther; adding, that he and all the 
reft of his countrymen were going to ftrike off © 
another way, in order to join the remainder of | 
their wives and families: and after giving usa _ 
fhort account which way to fteer our courfe for — 
the neareft part of Seal River, which he faid | 
would be out bef{ way homeward, he and his | 
crew delivered me moft of the things which they | 
had in charge, packed up their awls, and fet out 
toward the South Weft, making the woods ring | 
with their laughter, and left us to confider of 
our unhappy fituation, near two hundred miles — 
from Prince of Wales’s Fort, all heavily laden, 
and our ftrength and fpirits greatly reduced by | 
hunger and fatigue. | 
Our fituation at that time, though very alarm- 
ing, 
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