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of my painful, though in reality very simple disorder, (foot- 1771. 

 foundering,) which I had before considered to be an affair of-"^" 

 the greatest consequence. 



Rest, however, though essential to my speedy recovery, 

 could not at this time be procured ; for as the Indians were 

 desirous of joining the remainder of their wives and families 

 as soon as possible, they would not stop even a single day ; so 

 that on the twenty-seventh we again began to move ; and 27th. 

 though they moved at the rate of eight or nine miles a day, 

 it was with the utmost difficulty that I could follow them. 

 Indeed the weather proved remarkably fine and pleasant, and 

 the ground was in general pretty dry, and free from stones ; 

 which contributed greatly to my ease in walking, and enabled 

 me to keep up with the natives. 



On the thirty-first of July, we arrived at the place ^ where 31st. 

 the wives and families of my companions had been ordered to 

 wait our return from the Copper-mine River. Here we found 

 several tents of Indians; but those [188] belonging to Matonab- 

 bee, and some others of my crew, had not arrived. We saw, 

 however, a large smoke to the Eastward, which we supposed 

 had been made by them, as no other Indians were expected 

 from that quarter. Accordingly, the next morning, Matonab- August, 

 bee sent some of his young men in quest of them, and on the 

 fifth, they all joined us ; when, contrary to expectation, a 3th. 

 great number of other Indians were with them ; in all, to the 

 amount of more than forty tents. Among those Indians, was 

 the man who Matonabbee stabbed when we were at Clowey. 

 With the greatest submission he led his wife to Matonabbee's 

 tent, set her down by his side, and retired, without saying a 

 word. Matonabbee took no notice of her, though she was 

 bathed in tears ; and by degrees, after reclining herself on her 



[* The exact position of this place, to which the women and children had 

 moved from the north shore of Cat or Clinton-Colden Lake, is not certain, but 

 it was evidently on some of the lakes or streams marked on his map as lying 

 between Cogead (Contwoito) and Point Lakes.] 



