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A JOURNEY TO THE 
1770. greeable when raw, though it is tolerable eating 
‘—-— when properly cooked. The weather continued fo 
June. 
remarkably bad, accompanied with conftant hea- 
vy rain, {now and fleet, and our neceflities were 
fo great.by the time the weather permitted us to 
make a fire, that we had nearly eat to the amount 
of one buffalo quite raw, ' 
Notwithftanding | muftered up all my philofo- 
phy on this occafion, yet | muft confefs that my 
{pirits began to fail me. Indeed our other mis-. 
fortunes .were greatly aggravated by the incle- 
mency of the weather, which was not only cold, 
but fo very wet that for near three days and 
nights, I had not one dry thread about me.. When 
the fine weather returned, we made a fire, though 
it was only of mofs, as I have already obferved ; 
and having got my cloaths dry, all things feem- 
ed likely to go on in the old channel, though 
that was indifferent enough; but I endeavoured, | 
like a failor after a ftorm, to forget paft misfor- 
tunes. 
None of our natural wants, if we except thirft, — 
are fo diftrefling, or hard to endure, as hunger ; 
and in wandering fituations, like that which I | 
now experienced, the hard{fhip is greatly aggra- 
vated by the uncertainty with refpect to its du- _ 
ration, and the means moft prover to be ufed to | 
remove it, as well as by the labour and fatigue | 
we mutt neceflarily undergo for that purpofe, 
and the difappointments which too frequently 
fruftrate our beft concerted plans and moft fire- 
| nuous 
