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The days, however, being fhort, our fledges 1770. 
heavy, and fome of the road very bad, our pro- 
erefs feldom exceeded fixteen or eighteen miles 
a day, and fome days we did not travel fo 
much. 
On the eighteenth, as we were continuing our 
courfe to the North Weft, up a fmall creek that 
empties itfelf into Ege River, we faw the tracks 
of many deer which had crofied that part a few 
days before; at that time there was not a frefh 
track to be feen: fome of the Indians, however, 
who had lately paffed that way, had killed more | 
than they had occafion for, fo that feveral joints 
of good meat were found in their old tent- 
places; which, though only fufficient for one 
good meal, were very acceptable, as we had been 
in exceeding ftraitened circumftances for many 
days. 
On the nineteenth, we purfued our courfe in ioth, 
the North Weft quarter; and, after leaving the 
above-mentioned creek, traverfed nothing but en- 
tire barren ground, with empty bellies, till the 
twenty-feventh ; for though we arrived at fome 27th 
woods on the twenty-fixth, and faw a few deer, 
four of which the Indians killed, they were at 
fo great a diftance from the place on which we 
lay, that it was the twenty-feventh before the 
meat was brought to the tents.. Here the Indians 
propofed to continue one day, under pretence of 
repairing their fledges and {now fhoes; but from 
Ys the 
December, 
18th, 
