NORTHERN OCEAN. 
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fet out early in the morning, and walked about ,,.,, 
forty miles to the North and North by Eaft. In “~~ 
our way we faw plenty of deer and mufk-oxen : 
feveral of the former the Indians killed, but a 
fmart fhower of rain coming on juft as we were 
going to put up, made the mofs fo wet as to ren- 
der it impracticable to light afire. The next day 
proving fine and clear, we fet out in the mor- 
ning, and walked twenty miles to the North by 
Weft and North North Weft; but about noon 
the weather became fo hot and fultry as to ren- 
der walking very difagreeable; we therefore put 
up on the top of a high hill, and as the mofs was 
then dry, lighted a fire, and fhould have made a 
comfortable meal, and been otherwife tolerably 
happy, had it not been for the mufkettoes, which 
were uncommonly numerous, and their flings 
almoft infufferable. The fame day Matonabbee 
fent feveral Indians a-head, with orders to pro- 
ceed to the Copper-mine River as faft as poffible, 
and acquaint any Indians they might meet, of 
our approach. By thofe Indians I alfo fent fome 
fmall prefents, as the fureft means to induce any 
ftrangers they found, to come to our affiftance. 
The eleventh was hot and fultry, like the pre- 
ceding day. In the morning we walked ten or 
eleven miles to the North Weft, and then met a 
Northern Indian Leader, called Oule-eye, and his 
family, who were, incompany with feveral Cop- 
per Indians,’ killing deer with bows and arrows 
and fpears, as they crofled a little river, by the 
fide 
July. 
roth, 
11th. 
