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upon them the nexttime they should return. The following 
summer I accordingly joined in this expedition, and after 
travelling five long days journey, we came to the place where 
the bearded meu usually landed, where we waited seventeen 
days for their arrival. Tne Red Men, by my advice, placed 
themselves in ambuscade to surprise the strangers, and 
accordingly when they landed to cut the wood, we were so 
successful as to kill eleven of them, the rest immediately 
escaping on board two large pettiaugres, and flying west- 
ward upon the Great JVater. 
<* Upon examining those whom we had killed, we found 
them much smaller than ourselves, and very white; they 
had a large head, and in the middle of the crown the hair 
was very long; their head was wraptin a great many folds 
of stuff, and their cloaths seemed to be made neither of 
wool nor silk ; they were very soft, and of different colours. 
‘Two only of the eleven who were slain had fire-arms with 
powder and hall. I tried their pieces, and found that they 
were much heavier than ours, and did not kill at so great 
a distance. 
«© After thie expedition I thought of nothing but proceed- 
jng ou my journey, and with that desiga I let the Red 
Men return home, and joined myself those who inhabited 
niore westward on the coast, with whom I travelled along 
the shore of the Great Water, which bends directly betwixt 
the north and the sun-setting. When I arrived at the vil- 
lages of my fellow-travellers, where I found the days very 
loug aud the nights very short, I was advised by the old 
men to give over all thoughts of continuing my journey- They 
told me that the land extended still a long way in a direction 
between the north and sun-setting, after which it ran directly 
west, and at length was cut by the Great Water from north 
to south. One of them added, that when he was young, he 
knew a very old man who had seen that distant land before 
it was eat away by the Great Water, and that when the 
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