40 
1770s 
| ee 
july. 
goth. 
A JOURNEY TO THE 
could be no fear of our arriving at that river 
early j in the Summer of one thoufand feven hun- 
dred and feventy-one. As I could not pretend 
to contradict him, I was entirely reconciled to his 
propofal; and accordingly we kept moving tothe 
Welftward with the other Indians. In a few 
days, many others joined us from different quar- 
ters; fo that by the thirtieth of July we had in 
all above feventy tents, which did not contain 
lefs than fix hundred perfons. Indeed our en- 
campment at night had the appearance of a {mall 
town; and in the morning, when we began to 
move, the whole ground (at leaft for a large 
{pace all round) feemed to be alive, with men, 
women, children, and dogs. Though the land 
was entirely barren, and deftitute of every kind 
of herbage, except wifh-a-capucca * and mofs, yet 
the deer were fo numerous that the Indians not 
only killed as many as were fufficient for our large 
number, but often feveral merely for the fkins, 
marrow, &c. and left the carcafes to rot, or to be 
devoured by the wolves, foxes, and other beafts 
ofprey. , 
In our way to the Weftward we came to feveral 
rivers, which, though fmall and of no note, were 
fo deep as not to be fordable, particularly Doo- 
baunt Rivert. On thofe occafions only, we 
had 
* With-a-capucca is the name given by the natives to a plant which is 
found all over the country bordering on Hudfon’s Bay; and an infufion 
Of it is ufed as tea by all the Europeans fettled in that country. 
f This river, as well as all others deferving that appellation which 1 
crofied 
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