to North- America. 1 1 j 



ately made every thing ready for my Departure* 

 The Commanders of this People acquainted me, 

 that they had twelve Villages peopled by 20000 

 Warriours j that their number was much greater 

 before the War, which they wag'd at one time with 

 the NadonejJis y the Tanimoha, and the EJJanapes* The \ 

 People are very civil, and fo far from a wild Savage 

 temper, that they have an Air of Humanity and 

 Sweetnefs. Their Hutts are long, and round at the top, 

 not unlike thofe of our Savages ; but they are made of 

 Reeds and Bulruilies, interlac'd and cemented with a 

 fort of fat Earth. Both the Men and the Women go na- 

 ked all over, excepting their Privities. The Women are 

 not fo handfom, as thofe who live upon the Lakes of 

 Canada. There feems to be fomething^ of Govern- 

 ment and Subordination among this People ; and 

 they have their Houfes fortified with the branches 

 of Trees, and Fafcines flrengthen'd with fat Earth. 



The 21/ we imbarqu'd at the break of day, and 

 landed that Night in an I (land covered with Stones 

 and Gravel, having pafs'd by another at which I 

 would not put in, becaufe I would not flight the 

 opportunity of the Wind, which then flood very 

 fair. Next day the Wind ftanding equally fair, 

 we fet out and continued our courfe all that Day, 

 and the following Night ; for the fix Ejjanapes in- 

 formed us, that the River was clean, and free from 

 Rocks and Beds of Sand. The 23 we landed early 

 in the Morning on the right fide of the River, in 

 order to careen one of our Boats that fprung a 

 Leak. While that was a doing, we drefl fome Ve- 

 nifon that had been prefented me by the Comman- 

 der of the laft Village of the Eokoros ; and the ad- 

 jacent Country being replenifli d with Woods, the 

 Savages of our Company went a {hooting in the 

 Forefts ; but they faw nothing but fmall Fowls, that 

 they did not think fit to /hoot at. As foon as we 

 reimbarqu'd, the Wind fell all of a fudden, and fo 



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