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At the fort we have alfo had a vifit from 

 an Indian family, who came to us in the true 

 ftyle of native accommodation — exhibiting 

 the full equipage of the family canoe, and 

 forming a fcene of high intereft and novelty. 

 Before the canoe reached the fort, we obferved 

 the long black hair and naked (kins of the 

 man, his two wives, and feveral children, who 

 were all flowed about the veffel with the 

 ftrifteft attention to equipoife — trimming it 

 moft exactly. The canoe was large, and, in 

 addition to the family, was loaded with cedar 

 and other kinds of wood for fale or barter. 

 On the top of the cargo appeared a ferocious- 

 looking animal, fetting up his briftles like the 

 quills of the porcupine. It was a fpecies of 

 wild hog caught in the foreft, and hence called 

 a bufh-bog. A fmall monkey was likewife 

 {kipping about the canoe. At one fide fat 

 two very fine parrots, and on the other was 

 perched a large and moft beautiful mackaw, 

 exhibiting all the rich fplendour of his gay 

 ~ plumage. On the canoe arriving at the land- 

 ing place, the bow and arrows, the clay cook- 

 ing-veflfel, calabafhes, hammocks, and crab- 

 balkets, were all brought into view, and we 

 gazed on the whole, as forming a very com- 



