12 Thirty Years 
The next morning our camp was in motion at five 
A. M., and we soon afterwards embarked with the flat- 
tering accompaniment of a fair wind: it proved, how- 
ever, too light to enable us to stem the stream, and 
we were obliged to resume the fatiguing operation of 
tracking, sometimes under cliffs so steep that the men 
could scarcely, find a footing, and not unfrequently 
over spots rendered so miry, by the small streams that 
trickled from above, as to be almost impassable. In 
the course of the day we passed the scene of a very 
melancholy accident. Some years ago two fami- 
lies of Indians, induced by the flatness of a small 
beach, which lay betwixt the cliff and the river, chose 
it as the site of their encampment. They retired 
quietly to rest, not aware that the precipice, detached 
from the bank, aud urged by an accumulation of wa- 
ter in the crevice behind, was tottering to its base. 
It fell during the night, and the whole party was buried 
under its ruins, 
The length of our voyage to-day was, in a direct 
line, sixteen miles and a quarter, ona 8.8. W. course. 
We encamped soon after sunset, and the tent was 
scarcely pitched when it began to rain heavily, and 
cotitinued to do so all night. 
Sixteen miles on the 11th, and five on the following 
morning, brought us to the commencement of Hayes’ 
River, which is formed by the confluence of the Sha- 
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