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great Coat, and a Roll of Brafil Tobacco. Two of 

 the ten Warriours that he gave me, could fpeak the 

 Language of the Outacuas, which I was well pleas'd 

 with ; not that I was a ftranger to their own Lan- 

 guage^ for between that and the Algonkin there is no 

 great difference, but in regard that there were fe~ 

 veral words that puzled me. My four Outaouas were 

 tranfported with this little Reinforcement, and were 

 then fo incouraged, that they told me above four 

 times, that we might venture fafely fo far as the 

 Plantation of the Sun. I embarqed with this fmall 

 Guard the i6tb about Noon, and arrived that Night 

 at the Land carriage of Ouijccnfinc, which we ft~ 

 nifh'd in two days, that is, we left the River of 

 Tuantsy and tranfported our Canows and Baggage 

 to the River Ouifcwfinc, which is not above three 

 quarters of a League diftant, or thereabouts. I 

 lhall fay nothing of the River we left, but that 'twas 

 Muddy, full of Shelves, and inclofed with a fteep 

 Coaft, Marfhes, and frightful Rocks. 



The we embarqu'd upon the River Opifi 

 confine, and being favoured by a flack Current, ar- 

 rived in four days at the place, where it empties it 

 felf into the River MiJJifipi, which is about half a 

 League broad in that part. The force of the Cur- 

 rent, and the breadth of that Rfter, is much tha 

 fame as that of the Loire. It lies Norch-Eaft, and 

 South- Weft ; and its fides are adorn 'd with Meadows- 

 lofty Trees and Firs. lobferv'd but two Ifl&nds up- 

 on it, though there may be more, which the dark- 

 nefs of the Night hid from us as we came down. 

 The z$d we landed upon an Ifland in the River 

 Mijjififty over againft the River I fpoke of but now, 

 and were in hopes to find fome wild Goats there, 

 but had the ill fortune to find none. The day af- 

 ter we croft to t'other fide of the River, founding it 

 every where, as we had done the day before, and 

 feuad nine loot water in the fhalloweft place. The 



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