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left. I was not apprehenfive of being attacked by 

 *em 5 for the Savages never fight fairly, neither do 

 they ever attempt to pull up Palifladoes ; but I was 

 affraid that they would ftarve us out by cramping 

 burHuntfrnen in their due range. However, the 

 Hurons continuing fifteen days in my Fort $o refrefh 

 thetfifelves, 1 us'd the precaution of ingaging them 

 to aflift my Huntfmen in providing Meat: But as 

 foon as they took leave of me in order to return 

 home, our hunting was at at end, and the Gates 

 were kept (hut. 



At laft, finding that my Provifions were almoft 

 out, I refolv'd to go to Mijjllimakinac, to buy up 

 Corn from the 'Hurons and the Outaouam. Accor- 

 dingly, having left fome Soldiers to guard the Fort 

 in my abfence, I imbarqu'd with the reft of my 

 Detachfnent on the firft of April, with a gentle 

 South- Eaft Gale; by the help of which we infenfi- 

 bly crofs'd the Bay of Saguinan. That little Gulf is 

 fix hours over, and in the middle of it there are 

 two little Iflands, which afford a very feafonable 

 jfhelter when a wind arifes in the croffing over. 

 Before you have crofs'd this Bay, the Coaftis al! 

 along full of Rocks and Shelves, one of which that 

 1 faW was fix Leagues broad : But above it theCoaft 

 is clean and low, efpecially towards the Sand-Hi- 1 

 ver, which lies half way between that Bay and a 

 place czVi&VAnfe duTonnerc. Now this laft place 

 is reckoned thirty Leagues off the Bay. Having 

 paft that, we had but thirty Leagues more to fail ; 

 which we did without any danger, by the help of 

 an Eaft-South-Eaft Gale, that fwell'd the Waves 

 prodigioufly* In the Mouth of the lllinefe Lake we 

 met the party of the Hurons that I mentioned before j 

 and four or five hundred Qvttaouas, who were bound 

 home, after having fpent the Winter in hunting of 

 Beavers upon the River of Saguinan. Both they and j 

 we were ibrc'tj to lye by in that place for three or 



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