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to our wants could be found upon it ^ 

 yet, unpromifing as this profpecT: waSj 

 and theugh: little fuccour could be ex^ 

 pedted from this quarter, I could not 

 help, as I ftFolled along fliare from the 

 reft, cafting my eyes towards the fea. 

 Continuing thus to look cut, I thought 

 I faw fomething now and then upon 

 the top of a fea that looked black, 

 which upon obferving flill more in- 

 tently, I imagined at laft to be a canoe 5 

 but reflefting afterwards how unufual 

 it was for Indians to venture out ift fa 

 mountainous a fea, and at fuch a dif-> 

 tance from the land, I concluded myfelf 

 to be deceived. However, its nearer ap- 

 proach convinced me, beyond all doubt, 

 of its being a canoe ; but that it could 

 not put in any where hereabouts, but in- 

 tended for fome other part of the coaft. 

 I ran back as faft as I could to my com- 

 panies, and acquainted them with what 

 I had l^en. The defpondency they were 



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