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gun to Michel, the Iroquois, who was very eager in 

 the chase, and often successful. 



Scptemher 14. — This morning the officers being as- 

 sembled round a small fire, Perrault presented each 

 of us with a small piece of meat which he had saved 

 from his allowance. It was received with great thank- 

 fulness, and such an act of self-denial and kindness, 

 being totally unexpected in a Canadian voyager, filled 

 our eyes with tears. In directing our course to a river 

 issuing from the lake, we met Credit, who communi- 

 cated the joyful intelligence of his having killed two 

 deer in the morning. We instantly halted, and hav- 

 ing shared the deer that was nearest to us, prepared 

 breakfast. After which, the other deer was sent for, 

 and we went down to the river, which was about three 

 hundred yards wide, and flowed with great velocity 

 through a broken rocky channel. Having searched 

 for a part where the current was most smooth, the 

 canoe was placed in the water at the head of a rapid, 

 and St. Germain, Solomon, Belanger, and I, embarked 

 in order to cross. We went, from the shore very well, 

 but in mid-channel the canoe became difficult to man- 

 age under our burden, as the breeze was fresh. The 

 Current drove us to the edge of the rapid, when l'e- 



langer unfortunately applied his paddle to avert the 

 apparenl danger of being forced down ii, and lost his 

 balance The canoe was overset in cone quenoe in 



