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.! he should be successful in hunting. He eve i 

 endeavored to entire away our other hunter Adam, 

 and proposed to him to carry off the only kettle we 



had, and without which we could not have B1 

 two days. Adam's inability to move, however, j 

 eluded him from agreeing to the proposal, hut he 

 could assign no reason for not acquainting me with it, 

 previous to Belang ! I in- 



elin I Dsider the whole matter as a fiction 



Adam's, but he persisted in his story without wa\ 

 ing ; and Belanger, when we met again, confessed 

 that every part of it was true. It is painful to have 

 to record a fact bo derogatory to human nature, but I 

 have deemed it proper to mention it, to shew the dif- 

 ficulties we had to contend with, and the effect which 

 distress had in warping the feelings and understand] 

 of the most diligent and obedient of our party ; 

 -mil Belanger had been imed up to thi 



t ime. 



In making arrac irture, Adam 



disclosed to me, for the first time, thai he was affi 

 ed with (edematous swellings in some parts of the 

 body, to Buch a d preclude the slightest at- 



tempt at marching ; and npon m j ing my sur- 



prise at his having hithi I 

 tent of his malady, anion- ot ions the 



tails of the precedin [t nowl me 



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