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lieutenant and of the elders of each family. To 

 thefe they join the prefents which have been made 

 them in order to obtain prifoners, together with the 

 tongues of all the animals killed during the cam* 

 paign, and which are to be facrificed to the genii 

 at their return. 



In their marches by land, the chief carries his v 

 own bag called his matrafs, but may difcharge this 

 burden on any one at pleafure, and need not fear 

 being refufed, this being looked upon as an honour 

 done the perfon to whom it is given : this is alfo a 

 fort of right of furvivorfhip to the command in 

 cafe the chief and his lieutenant mould happen to 

 die in the campaign. But whilft I write you, be- 

 hold me arrived in the river Niagara, where I mall 

 meet with agreeable company, and remain fome 

 days. I fet out from Riviere des Sables, the 2 1 ft 

 before fun rife, but the wind proving always con- 

 trary, we were obliged at ten o'clock to enter the 

 bay of the Tfonnonthouans. At half way between 

 this bay and Riviere des Sables, there is a fmall ri- 

 ver which 1 would not have failed to viflt, had I 

 been fooner informed of what it has that is fingular* 

 which I learnt juft after my arrival here. 



This river is called Cafconchiagon, and is very 

 narrow, and fhallow at its difcharge into the lake. 

 A little higher it is 240 feet in breadth, and it is 

 affirmed that there is water to float the largeft mips. 

 Two leagues from its mouth you are flopped by a 

 fall, which feems to be about fixty feet high, and 

 240 feet broad ; a mufket (hot above this, you 

 find a fecond of the fame breadth, but not fo high 

 by a third : and half a league higher (till a third 5 

 which is full a hundred feet high, and 360 feet 

 broad. You meet after this with feveral rapids, 

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