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were about to engage. It was on a small island not much 

 incumbered with wood, though there was plenty of the 

 spruce kind on the opposite land,, which was only divided 

 from us by a small channel. We now landed, but before 

 the canoe was unloaded, and the tent pitched, a violent 

 thunder-storm came on, accompanied with rain, which 

 did not subside till the night had closed in upon us. Two 

 of our men who had been in the woods for axe-handles, 

 saw a deer, and one of them shot at it, but unluckily 

 missed his aim. A net was also prepared and set in the 

 eddy at the end of the island. 



