NORTHERN OCEAN 
and caught a confiderable quantity of very fine 
fifth ; fuch as tittemeg, barble, &c. 
The number of deer which crofled Cathawha- 
chaga, during our ftay there, was by no means 
equal to our expectations, and no more than juft 
fufficient to fupply our prefent wants; fo that 
after waiting feveral days in fruitlefs expectati- 
on, we began to prepare for moving; and ac- 
cordingly, on the fixth of July, we fet out, 
though we had not at that time as much victu- 
als belonging to our company as would furnifh 
us a fupper. . During our ftay here, we had each 
day got as much fith or flefh as was fufficient for 
prefent expenditure; but, being in hopes of bet- 
ter times, faved none. 
Before we left Cathawhachaga, I made feveral 
obfervations for the latitude, and found it to be 
63° 4 North. I alfo brought up my journal, 
and filled up my chart to that time. Every 
thing being now ready for our departure, my 
guide informed me that in a few days a canoe. 
would be abfolutely neceflary, to enable us to 
crofs fome unfordable rivers which we fhould 
meet, and could not avoid. This induced me to 
purchafe one at the eafy rate of a fingle knife, the 
full value of which did not exceed one penny. 
It muft be obferved, that the man who fold the 
canoe had no farther occafion for it, and was glad 
to take what he could get; but had he been tho- 
‘Toughly acquainted with our neceflities he moft 
afluredly would have had the confcience to. 
have 
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July. 
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