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of venison to our stock of provisions. Our vessel was in 

 such a wretched condition, as I have already observed, 

 that it occasioned a delay of three hours to put her in a 

 condition to proceed. At length we continued our former 

 course, East-North-East a miie and an half, when we 

 passed an extensive Indian encampment ; East-South- 

 East one mile, where a small river appeared on the left ; 

 South- East by South one mile and three quarters, East by 

 South half a mile, East by North one mile, and saw another 

 house on an island ; South half a mile, West three quar- 

 ters of a mile, South-West half a mile, where the cliffs of 

 white and red clay appeared like the ruins of ancient 

 castles. Our canoe now veered gradually to East-North- 

 East one mile and an half, when we landed in a storm of 

 rain and thunder, where we perceived the remains of In- 

 dian houses. It was impossible to determine the wind in 

 any part of the day, as it came a-head in all our directions. 



Friday 21. As I was very sensible of the difficulty of 

 procuring provisions in this country, I thought it prudent 

 to guard against any possibility of distress of that, kind on 

 our return ; I therefore ordered ninety pounds weight of 

 pemmican to be buried in an hole, sufficiently deep to ad- 

 mit of a fire over it without doing any injury to our hid- 

 den treasure, and which would, at the same time, secure 

 it from the natives of the country, or the wild animals of 

 the woods. 



The morning was very cloudy, and at four o'clock we 

 renewed our voyage, steering South by East one mile and 

 a quarter, East-South-East half a mile, South by East one 

 mile and an half, East half a mile, South-East two miles, 

 where a large river flowed in from the left, and a smaller 

 one from the right. We then continued South by West 

 three quarters of a mile, East by South a mile and an half, 

 South three quarters of a mile, South-East by East one 

 mile, South by East half a mile, South-East three quarters 

 of a mile, South-East by South half a mile, South-East by 

 East half a mile, the cliffs of blue and yellow clay, display- 

 ing the same grotesque shapes as those which we passed 

 yesterday, South-South-East a mile and an half, South by 

 East two miles. The latitude by observation was 52. 47. 

 51. North. 



Here we perceived a small new canoe, that had been 

 drawn up to the edge of the woods, and soon after another 

 appeared, with one man in it, which came out of a small 



