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A JOURNEY TO THE 
oe with their barbarity ; but fo far were my remon. 
a ad ftrances from having the defired effect, that they 
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25th. 
a8ih, 
afterwards made no fcruple of telling me in the 
plaineft terms that if any female relation of mine 
had been there, fhe fhould have been ferved in 
the fame manner. 
Deer being plentiful, we remained at this place 
ten days, in order to dry and prepare a quantity 
of the flefh and fat to carry with us; as this was ~ 
the laft time the Indians expected to fee fuch 
plenty until they met them again on the barren 
ground. During our ftay here, the Indians com- 
pleted the wood-work for their canoes, and pro- 
cured all their Summer tent-poles, &c.; and while 
we were employed in this neceflary bufinefs, the 
thaw was fo great that the bare ground began to 
appear in many places, and the ice in the rivers, 
where the water was fhallow and the current 
rapid, began to break up; fo that we were in 
daily expectation of feeing geefe, ducks and other 
birds of paflage. 
On the twenty-fifth, the weather, being cool 
and favourable fcr travelling, we once more fet 
out, and that day walked twenty miles to the 
Faftward; as fome of the women had not 
joined us, we did not move on the two follow- — 
ing days. 
On the twenty-eighth, having once more mut 
tered all our forces, early in the morning we fet 
out, and the next day pafled by Thleweyaza Yeth, 
. the 
