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always come off fhort; and when real diftrefs ap- ' 1772. 
proaches, many of them are permitted to flarve, —~—~ 
when the males are amply provided for. 
The twenty-fixth was fine and pleafant. Inthe 
morning we fet out as ufual, and after walking 
about five miles, the Indians killed three deer ; 
as our numbers were greatly leffened, thefe ferv- 
ed us for two or three meals, at a {mall expence 
of ammunition. 
In continuing our courfe to the Faftward, we 
croffed Cathawhachaga River, on the thirtieth of 
May, on the ice, which broke up foon after the 
laft perfon had crofled it. We had not been long 
on the Eaft fide of the river before we perceived 
bad weather near athand, and begam to make eve- 
ry preparation for it which our fituation would 
admit; and that was but very indifferent, being on 
entire batren ground. It is true, we had complete 
fets of Summer tent-poles, and fuch tent-cloths as 
are generally ufed by the Northern Indians in that 
feafon ; thefe were arranged in the beft manner, 
and in fuch places as were moft likely to afford 
us fhelter from the threatening ftorm. The rain 
foon began to defcend in fuch torrents as to make 
the river overflow to fuch a degree as foon to 
convert our firft place of retreat into an open fea, 
_and oblige us in the middle of the night to af- 
femble at the top of an adjacent hill, where the 
violence of the wind would not permit us to piceb 
a tent; fo that the only fhelter we could obtaia 
was to take the tent-cloth about our fhoulders, 
and 
May 
26th. 
30th. 
