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this unknown Country. Accordingly they brought 

 nie word, that 'twas feme new married Women, 

 who were running to receive the Soul of an old 

 Fellow that lay a dying. From thence I concluded, 

 that the People were Pythagoreans ; and upon that 

 Apptehenfion, ask'd 'em how they came to eat A- 

 nimals, into which their Souls might be transfused: 

 But they made anfwer, that the Transmigration of 

 Souls is always confined to the refpe&ive Species, 

 fo that the Soul of a Man cannot enter into a Fowl, 

 as that of a Fowl cannot be lodg'd in a quadruped, 

 and fo on. The Okoros, of both Sexes, are fully as 

 handfom and as clever, as this People, 



December the 4^, I took leave of this Village, ha- 

 ving ten Soldiers on board of my Pirogue, befides 

 the ten Oumamis> the four QutaouasjxA the four Ejfa- 

 napes Slaves, that I have mentioned fo often. Here 

 ended the Credit and Authority of the Calumet of 

 Peace, for thzGnacf tares are not acquainted with 

 that Symbol of Concord. The firft day we had 

 enough to do to run fix or feven Leagues, by rea- 

 fon of the Bulrufhes with which the Lake is in- 

 cumbered. The two following days we faii'd twen- 

 ty Leagues. The qth day a Weft-North-Weft wind 

 furpris'd us with fucha boifterous violence, that we 

 were fore'd to put afhoar, and lay two days upon 

 a fandy Grotind, where we were in danger of ftar- 

 ving for Hunger and Cold ; for the Country was fo 

 barren, that we could not find a chip of Wood 

 wherewith to warm our felves, or todrefs our Victu- 

 als ; and as far as cur Eye could reach, there was 

 nothing to be feen but Fens covered with Reeds 

 and Clay, and naked Fields. Having indur'd this 

 Hard/hip we fet out again, and row'd to a little 

 Ifland, upon which we incamp'd, but found no- 

 thing there but green Fields; however, tomakefome 

 amends we fifli'd up great numbers of little Trouts, 

 upon which we fed very heartily. At laft, after 



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