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Thefe, though light and handy, and of courfe ,,... 
well adapted for the ufe of both Englifh and Indi- 
ans in long journies, and of fuflicient flrength for lain 
leaden fhot or ball, are not {trong enough for this 
kind of fhot; and firong fowling-pieces would 
not only be too heavy for the laborious ways of 
hunting in this country, but their bores being fo 
much larger, would require more than double 
the quantity of ammunition that {mall ones do; 
which, to Indians at leaft, mutt be an object of 
no inconfiderable importance. 
i kept company with Matonabbee till the twen- — zoth. 
tieth, at which time the deer began to be fo fcarce 
that hardly a frefh track could be feen; and as 
we were then but a few days walk from the Fort, 
he advifed me to proceed on with all {peed, while 
he and his companions followed at leifure. Ac 
cordingly, on the twenty-firft, I fet out poft- a4 
_ hafte, accompanied by one of the home-guard 
(Southern) Tribe, and three Northern Indians. 
That night we lay on the South fide of Egg River; 
but, long before day-break the next morning, the 
- weather being fo bad, with a violent gale of wind 
from the North Weft, and fuch a drift of fnow, 
that we could not have a bit of fire: and as no 
good woods were near to afford us fhelter, we 
agreed to proceed on our way: efpecially as the 
wind was on our backs, and though the weather 
was bad near the furface we could frequently fee 
the moon, and fometimes the ftars, to direct us in 
our courfe. In this fituation we continued walk- 
ing 
