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CHAPTER XI. 



Renew our voyage. Circumstances of the river. Land at 

 the house of a Chiej. Entertainedby him. Carried down 

 the river with great rapidity to another house. Received 

 with kindness. Occupations of the inhabitants on its banks, 

 heave the canoe at a fall. Pass over land to another vil- 

 lage. Some account of it. Obtain a view of an arm of 

 the sea. Lose our dog. Procure another canoe. Arrive 

 at the arm of the sea. Circumstances of it. One of our 

 guides returns home. Coast along a bay. Some descrip- 

 tion of it. Meet with Indians. Our communication with 

 them. Their suspicious conduct towards us. Pass on- 

 wards. Determine the latitude and longitude. Return 

 to the river. Dangerous encounter with the Indians, 

 Proceed on our journey. 



Salw-day^S. ^ At one in the afternoon we renewed our voy- 

 age in a large canoe, with four of the natives. We found 

 the river almost one continued rapid, and in half an hour 

 we came to an house, where, however, we did not land, 

 though invited by the inhabitants. In about an hour we 

 arrived at two houses, where we were, in some degree, 

 obliged to go on shore, as we were informed that the owner 

 of them was a person of consideration. He indeed re- 

 ceived and regaled us in the same manner as at the last 

 village ; and to increase his consequence, he produced 

 many European articles, and amongst them were at least 

 forty pounds weight of old copper stills. We made our 

 stay as short as possible, and our host embarked with us. 

 In a very short time we were carried by the rapidity of the 

 current to another house of very large dimensions, which 

 was partitioned into different apartments, and whose doors 

 were on the side. The inhabitants received us with great 

 kindness; but instead of fish, they placed a long, clean, 

 and well made trough before us, full of berries. In addi- 

 tion to those which we had already seen, there were some 

 black, that were larger than the hurtle-berry, and of a 

 richer flavour: and others white, which resembled the 

 blackberry in every thing but colour. Here we saw a wo- 

 man with two pieces of copper in her under lip, as des- 



