to North- America. I op 



price vanes according to the goodnefs. In Winter 

 and Autumn the Fieih of a Beaver eats very well,if it 

 be roafted. Thus, Sir, I haveprefented you with an 

 exaft Defcription of thefe reputed Amphibious A~ 

 nimals which make fuch Stru&ures, that all the Art 

 of Man can fcarce equal. Upon another occafioa 

 perhaps I may give you a circumftantial Account 

 of their wonderful Stru&ure, which I decline at 

 prefent, becaufe the Digreffion would be too te- 

 dious. 



To return to my Voyage. After our arrival in 

 the Bay of Ponteouatamis, we bid adieu to the Na- 

 vigation upon the Lakes of Canada ; and fettingout 

 September 30, arrived OUober 2. at the foot of the fall 

 of Kakalin, after Hemming fome little Currents in 

 the River of Puants. The next day we accomplifh'd 

 the fmall Land- carriage, and on the j^arriv'd be- 

 fore the Village of Kikapous, in the Neighbourhood 

 of which I incamp'd the next day, in order to re- 

 ceive Intelligence. That Village ftands upon the 

 brink of a little Lake, in which the Savages fifh 

 great quantities of Pikes and Gudgeons. I found 

 only thirty or forty Men fit for War in the place,* 

 for the reft were gone a Beaver-hunting fome days 

 before. The jtb I reimbarq'd, and rowing hard 

 made in the Evening the little Lake of Mdommis % 

 where we kill'd Bucks and Buftards enough for Sup- 

 per. We went afhoar that Night, and built Hatts 

 for our felves upon a point of Land that (hoots out; 

 by break of day I went in a Canow to the Village, 

 and after an hours Conference with fome of the Sa- 

 vages, prefented 'em with two Rolls of Tobacco, 

 and they by way of Acknowledgment, made me 

 a prefent of two or three Sacks of Oatmeal : For 

 the fides of the Lake are covered with a fort of Oats, 

 which grows in tufts with a tall Stalk, and of which 

 the Savages reap plentiful Crops. The $th 1 arrived 

 at the foot of Omagamis Fort^ where I found but 



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