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' ourjourney. The very uncourteous behaviour 1770, 
of the Northern Indians then in company, gave 
me little hopes of receiving affliftance from them, 
any longer than I had wherewithal to reward them 
for their trouble and expence; for during the 
whole time I had been with them, not one of them 
had offered to give me the leaft morfel of victuals, 
without afking fomething in exchange, which, in 
general, was three times the value of what they 
could have got for the fame articles, had they car- 
ried them to the Factory, though feveral hundred 
miles diftant. 
So inconfiderate were thofe people, that wher- 
ever they met me, they always expected that I 
had a great aflortment of goods to relieve their 
neceflities ; as if I had brought the Company’s 
warehoufe with me. Some of them wanted 
guns; all wanted ammunition, iron-work, and 
tobacco; many were folicitous for medicine; and 
others prefled me for different articles of clothing: 
but when they found I had nothing to fpare, ex- 
cept a few nick-nacks and gewgaws, they made 
no f{cruple of pronouncing me a “poor fervant, 
** noways like the Governor at the Factory, who, 
“ they faid, they never faw, but he gave them 
*“‘fomething ufeful.” It is fearcely poflible to 
conceive any people fo void of common under- 
ftanding, as to think that the fole intent of my 
undertaking this fatiguing journey, was to car- 
ry a large aflortment of ufeful and heavy imple- 
ments, to give to all that flood in need of them ; 
but 
Augult. 
