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177 Ef. 
November. 
December. 
rift, 
13th. 
A JOURNEY TO THE 
times a threat of this kind caufes the death of a 
whole family ; and that without any blood being — 
fhed, or the leaft apparent moleftation being of- _ 
fered to any of the parties. | 
Having dried as many fifh and fifh-roes as we 
could conveniently take with us, we once more 
packed up our ftores, and, on the firft day of De- 
cember, fet out, and continued our courfe to the 
South Weft, leaving Anaw’d Lake on the South 
Welt. Several of the Indians being out of order, 
we made but fhort days journies. 
From the firft to the thirteenth, we walked 
along a courfe of {mall lakes, joined to each other 
by {mall rivers, or creeks, that have communica- 
tion with Anaw’d Lake. : 
In our way we caught daily a few fifh by ang- 
ling, and faw many beaver houfes; but thefe 
were generally in fo difficult a fituation, and had 
fo many ftones in the compofition of them, that 
the Indians killed but few, and that at a great 
expence of labour and tools. 
On the thirteenth, one of the Indians killed 
two deer, which were the firft that we had feen 
fince the twentieth of October. So that duringa 
period of near two months, we had lived on the 
dried meat that we had prepared at Point Lake, 
and a few fith; of which the latter was not very 
confiderable in quantity, except what was caught 
at Anaw’d Lake. Itis true, we alfo caught a few 
rabbits, and at times the wood-partridges were 
fo 
