NORTHERN OCEAN. 
For many days after leaving thofe people, we 
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had the good fortune to meet with plenty of pro- ——~ 
_ vifions; and as the weather was for a long time 
remarkably fine and pleafant, our circumftances 
were altered fo much for the better, that every 
thing feemed to contribute to our happinefs, as if 
defirous to make fome amends for the fevere hun- 
ger, cold, and exceflive hardfhips that we had 
fuffered long before, and which had reduced us 
to the greateft mifery and want. 
Deer was fo plentiful great part of the way, 
that the Indians killed as many as were wanted, 
without going out of their road; and every lake 
and river to which we came feemed willing to 
give usa change of diet, by affording us plenty of 
the fineft fith, which we caught either with hooks 
ornets. Geefe, partridges, gulls, and many other 
fowls, which are excellent eating, were alfo in 
fuch plenty, that it only required ammunition, in 
fkilful hands, to have procured as many of them 
as we could defire. 
The only inconvenience we now felt was from 
frequent fhowers of heavy rain; but the inter- 
vals between thefe fhowers being very warm, and 
the Sun fhining bright, that difficulty was eafily 
overcome, efpecially as the belly was plentitully 
fupplied with excellent victuals. Indeed the very 
thoughts of being once more arrived fo near 
home, made me capable of encountering every 
difficulty, even if it had been hunger itfelf in the 
moft formidable fhape. 
On 
June. 
