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main stream was thru about three hundred 

 wide, and generally deep, though, in one part, 

 channel was interrupted by Beveral sandy banks, and 

 low alluvial islands covered with willows. It flows 

 between banks of sand thinly wooded, and as we ad- 



I the barr< n hills approached the water'a 

 At ten we rejoined our hunters, who had killed a 



and halted to breakfast. Wesent them forward ; 



fthem, who was walking along the shore after- 

 wards, fired upon two brown hears, and wounde I 

 of them, which instantly turn 



companions in the canoes put ashore to hi 

 Bistance, but did nol I in killii 



which fled upon the reinforcement coming up. 

 During the delay thus occasioned we overtook them, 

 and they continued with us during the rest of theday. 



