34 Journal of a Voyage through the 



CHAPTER IV. 



The new guide makes his escape. Compel another to supply 

 hh place. Land at an encampment of another tribe of 

 Indians. Account of their manners, dress, weapons, &r c. 

 Traffic with them. Description of a beautiful fish. En- 

 gage another guide. His curious jbehavionr. Kill a fox 

 and ground-hog. Land at an encampment of a tribe called 

 the Duguthee Dinees, or ^tiarrellers. Saw fax growing 

 wild. The varying character of the river and its banks. 

 Distant mountains. Perplexity from the numerous chan- 

 nels of the river. Determined to proceed. Land where 

 there had been an encampmetit of the Esquimaux. Saw 

 large focks of wild fowl. View of the sun at midnight. 

 Description of a place lately deserted by the Indians, 

 Houses of the natives described. Frequent shoxvers. Saw 

 a black fox. The discontents of our hunters renewed, and 

 pacified. Face of the country. Land at a spot lately in- 

 habited. Peculiar circumstances of it. Arrive at the 

 entrance of the lake. Proceed to an island. Some account 

 of it. 



^ Thursday I. } [5 hunder and rain prevailed during the 

 night, and, in the course of it, our guide deserted ; we 

 therefore compelled another of these people, very much 

 against his will, to supply the place of his fugitive coun- 

 tryman. We also took away the paddles of one of them, 

 who remained behind, that he might not follow us on any 

 scheme of promoting the escape of his companion, who 

 was not easily pacified. At length, however, we suc- 

 ceeded in the act of conciliation, and at half past three 

 quitted our station. In a short time we saw a smoke on 

 the East shore, and directed our course towards it. Our 

 new guide began immediately to call to the people that 

 belonged to it in a particular manner, which we did not 

 comprehend. He informed us that they were not of his 

 tribe, but were a very wicked, malignant people, who 

 would beat us cruelly, pull our hair with great violence 

 from our heads, and mal-treat us in various other ways. 



The men waited our arrival, but the women and chil- 

 dren took to the woods. There were but four of these 



