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much by tlie Cold : It Hill encreafed the following Days, tho* 

 the Wind was changed to South South Weil. We were alfo 

 obliged to break the Ice, tho' it was indeed but thin, to get 

 forward. The 19th, we went four Leagues, after which a South 

 Wind ftopt us Ihort, I never felt a North Eaft Wind fharper 

 than this from the South. It is very probable, that is was Itill 

 the 'North Eail Wind that blew, but which the Land rel]ed:ed 

 fometimes one Way, and fometimes another, as we turned with 

 the River. 



We meet on this Route v/ith a Kind of wild Cats, called 



Wild Cats Wcl- ^^j^u^y which are very much like our's, but 

 , ,rr lareer. I obferved fome that had fhorter 



nut 1 rees. and their rr^ v. , , i i i i 1 ^ 

 Frotertk' Tails, and others that had much longer, and 



^ ' bigger: They alfo liook very wild, and they 



afiared me, that they are very carnivorous and good Hunters. 

 The Forefts are full of Walnut-Trees, like thofe of Canada, and 

 their Roots have feveral Properties, which I have not heard re- 

 marked of the others. They are very foft, and their Bark dyes 

 a black Colour ; but their principal Ufe is for Phylic. They 

 flop the Flux of the Belly, and are an excellent Emetic. 



The twentieth it fnowed all Day, and we never ftirred : The 

 Weather grew milder, but the next Night the South Weft Wind 

 cleared the Sky, and the Cold began again with the greateft Se-* 

 verity. The next Morning fome Brandy, which we had left 

 all Night in the Pettiaugre was found thick like frozen Oil ; and 

 fome Spanilh Wine which I had for the Mafs was frozen. The 

 farther v/e went down it, the more we found that the River wind- 

 ed; the Wind followed all thefe Turnings, and which Way fo- 

 cver it came, theCold was IHU excelTive. They had never know^n 

 any Thing like it in this Country in the Memory of Man. 



The fame Day we perceived on the right Side of the River 

 M ks of the ^ *' went near it, and we 



•Mr ^ found it was a Monument fet up by the I/Iz^ 



noisy ÏOV an Expedition they had lately made 

 againft the Chicachas, There were two Figures of Men without 

 Heads, and fome entire. The firil denoted the Dead, and the 

 fécond the Prifoners. One of my Condudors told me on this 

 Occalion, that when there are any French among either, they fet 

 their Arms a-kimbc, or their Hands upon their Hips, to diflin- 

 guiih them from the Savages, whom they reprefent with their 

 Arms hanging down. This Di(Hn6Hon is not purely arbitrary; 

 it proceeds trom thefe People having obferved that the French 

 often put themfelves in this Pofture, which is not ufed among 

 them* 



Qarçiîa^h 



