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In confequence of this determination of the In- 17972. 
| dians, we continued our courfe to the Eaftward; —~-~ 
| but as game of all kinds was very plentiful, we Rea 
| made but fhort days journies, and often remained 
two or three days in one place, to eat up the 
|) fpoils or produce of the chace. The woods 
through which we were to pafs were in many pla- 
| ces fo thick, that it was neceflary to cut a path 
| before the women could pafs with their fledges ; 
_and in other places fo much of the woods had for- 
merly been fet on fire and burnt, that we were 
frequently obliged to walk farther than we other- 
wife fhould have done, before we could find green 
| brufh enough to floor our tents. 
_ From the fifteenth to the twenty-fourth of Fe- popnuary. 
bruary, we walked along a fmall river that emp- '5‘*-?4" 
ties itfelf into the Lake Clowey, near the part 
where we built canoes in May one thoufand feven 
hundred and feventy-one. This little river is that 
-which we mentioned in the former part of this 
Journal, as having communication with the Atha- 
pufcow Lake: but, from appearances, it is of no 
confequence whence it takes its rife, or where it 
‘empties itfelf, as one half of it is nearly dry three- 
\fourths of the year. The intervening ponds, 
however, having fufficient depth of water, are, 
}we may fuppofe, favourable fituations for beaver, 
4as many of their houfes are to be found in thofe 
‘parts. 
On the twenty-fourth, a ftrange Northern In- 24th, 
dian leader, called Thlew-fa-nell-ie, and feveral of 
| his 
