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1771. 
A JOURNEY TO THE 
fide of which we put up, as did alfo the above- 
—~_— mentioned Indians*. ‘That afternoon I {moked 
July. 
rath. 
13th. 
my calumet of peace with thefe ftrangers, and 
found them a quite different fet of people, at leaft 
in principle, from thofe I had feen at Congeca- 
thawhachaga: for though they had great plenty 
of provifions, they neither offered me nor my 
companions a mouthful, and would, if they had 
been permitted, have taken the laft garment from 
off my back, and robbed me of every article I 
poffefied. Even my Northern companions could 
not help taking notice of fuch unaccountable be- 
haviour. Nothing but their poverty protected 
them from being plundered by thofe of my crew ; 
and had any of their women been worth no- 
tice, they would moft affuredly have been preff- 
ed into our fervice. 
The twelfth was fo exceedingly hot and fultry, 
that we did not move ; but early in the morning 
of the thirteenth, after my companions had taken 
what dry provifions they chofe from our unfoci- 
able ftrangers, we fet out, and walked about fif- 
teen or fixteen miles to the North and North by 
Faft, in expectation of arriving at the Copper- 
mine River that day; but when we had reached 
the top of a long chain of hills, between which 
we were told the river ran, we found it to be no 
more than a branch of it which empties itfelf in- 
to the main river about forty miles from its in- 
| ; flux 
* This river runs nearly North Eaft, and in all probability empties it- 
felf into the Northern Ocean, not far from the Copper River. 
