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burn, on the contrary, animated by a firm reliance on 

 the beneficence of the Supreme Being, tempered with 

 resignation to his will, was indefatigable in his exer- 

 tions to serve us, and daily collected all the tripe de 

 roclie that was used in the officers' mess. Mr. Hood 

 could not partake of this miserable fare, and a par- 

 tridge which had been reserved for him was, I lament 

 to say, this day stolen by one of the men. 



Oct. 4. — The canoe being finished, it was brought 

 to the encampment, and the whole party being assem- 

 bled in anxious expectation on the beach, St. Ger- 

 main embarked, and amidst our prayers for his success, 

 succeeded in reaching the opposite shore. The canoe 

 was then drawn back again, and another person trans- 

 ported, and in this manner, by drawing it backwards 

 and forwards, they were all conveyed over without any 

 scrimis accident. By these frequent traverses the ca- 

 DOe was materially injured ; and latterly it. tilled each 

 time with water before reaching the shore, so that all 

 our garments and bedding were wet, and there was 

 not a sufficiency of willows upon the side on which 

 we now were, lo make a lire to dry them. 



That no time might be lost in procuring relief, I 

 immediately despatched Mr. Back with St. Germain, 

 Solomon Belanger, and Beauparlant, to search for the 

 rndians, directing him to go to Fort Enterprize, where 

 wc expected they would be, or where, at least, a noto 



