Mr. WAFE Ks Voyages y &c. i J 

 The Neighbourhood of the Mountains, 

 knd fteepnefs of the , Defcent, is the caufe 

 that the. Rivers rife thus faddenly after thefe 

 violent Rains $ hut for the fame reafon they 

 as fuddenly fall again. . 



But to return to my Story: being thus fni- 

 ftrated of our Defign of going down the 

 Stream, or of croffing either of thefe Rivers, 

 by Reafon of the finking of our Bark-logs, 

 we were glad to think of returning back to They are 

 the Indian Settlement, and Coafted up the^^ ca 

 Rivdr fide in the fame Track we came home 

 by. As our Hunger was ready to carrry, our 

 Eyes to any Ob je& that might afford us fome 

 Relief, it hapned that we efpied a Deer faft 

 afleep : Which we defigird if poffible to get, 

 and in order to it we came fb very near, that 

 we might almoft have thrown our felves on 

 him : But one of our Men putting the Muzle 

 of his Gun clofe to him, and the (hot not 

 being wadded, tumbled out, juft before 

 the Gun went off, and d id the Deer no hurt 5 

 but flatting up at the noife, he took the Ri- 

 ver and fwam over. As long as our way lay 

 by the River fide, we made a fhift to keep 

 it well eriongh : But being now to take leave 

 of the River, in order tofeekforthe Indians 

 Habitation, we were much at a lofs. Thif 

 was the Eighth Day, and we had no Suftj> 

 ence befide the ^-Berries we had got, 

 and the Pith of a. BMy-Trec we met wkh 7 

 which we fpHt and eat very favourly, 



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