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On this day, likewife, I faw parrots for the 

 firft time ; there are fome it is true, on the 

 banks of the Theakiki, but only in the fummer- 

 time ; but thefe I now law were only ftragglers on 

 their paffage to the MilTiflippi, where they are Found 

 at all feafons pf the year. They are no bigger than 

 a blackbird, their head is yellow, with a red fpot 

 in the middle ; in the reft of their plumage green 

 is the predominant colour. The two following 

 days we croffed a charming country, and on the 

 third of October towards noon found ourfelves at 

 the entrance of Lake Pimitepuy ^ this is a widen- 

 ing of the river, which, for three leagues is a 

 league in breadth. At the end of thefe three leagues 

 you find on the right a fecond village of the Illi- 

 pois, fifteen leagues diftant from that of the 

 rock. 



Nothing can be more delightful than its fitua- 

 tion oppofite to it is the profpecl: of a mod beau- 

 tiful foreft, which was then adorned with all the 

 variety of colours, and behind it - is a plain of an 

 immenfe extent, fkirted with woods. The lake 

 and river fwarm with fifh, and the banks of both 

 with game. I likewife met in this village four 

 French Canadians, who informed me, that I was 

 between four parties of enemies, and that I could 

 neither go backwards nor forwards with fafety ; 

 jthey alfo told me, that on the way I had come 

 there was an ambufcade of thirty Outagamies, 

 that an equal number of the fame Indians were 

 hovering about the village of Pimiteouy, and 

 that another body, to the number of fourfcore, 

 were pofted lower down the river in two com- 

 panies, 



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