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we must wait until Providence sends us a supply ; 

 and we sometimes think it rather tardy in com- 

 ing. 



Thursday, 18. An Indian has just arrived, who 

 brings the intelligence, that forty lodges of Crees 

 and Assiniboins, who the last spring, in company 

 with forty lodges of other tribes, set out on a war 

 party, are returning home. They separated at 

 Battle River from their allies, who, the messenger 

 says, crossed that river, to go and make peace 

 with their enemies, the Rapid and Black-feet In- 

 dians. The tribes last mentioned, inhabit the 

 country lying along the foot of the Rocky Moun- 

 tain, between the Sisiscatchwin and Missouri Riv- 

 ers. Both parties begin to be weary of such 

 bloody wars, as have long been carried on between 

 them, and are much disposed to patch up a peace, 

 on almost any terms. Thus do ruinous wars, wag- 

 ed by restless and ambitious people, in civilized 

 and savage countries, lay waste and destroy the 

 comforts of mankind. 



Sunday, October 16. This afternoon there fell 

 a little snow, which is the first we have had, this 

 fall. 



It is now several days since the X. Y. people 

 arrived from the Grand Portage ; but they give 

 us no news of Mr. M c Gillies and his company; 

 neither would they, were their condition ever so 



