( ) 

 brought in two fiffi, which ferved us for 

 fupper ; and then we repofed ourfelves 

 as before. Here we remained all the 

 next day ; and the m(2>rning after em- 

 barked again, and rowed till noon ; 

 then landing, we defcried the canoes 

 of the Indian men, who had been fome 

 time expected from an expedition they had 

 been upon. This was foon to make a 

 great alteration in the fituation of my af- 

 fairs, a prefage of which I could read in 

 the melancholy countenance of my 

 young hoftefs. She endeavoured to ex- 

 prefs herfelf in very earneft terms to 

 me ; but I had not yet acquired a com- 

 petent knowledge of the Indian lan- 

 guage to underiland her. 



As foon as the men were landed, {he 

 and the old Indian woman went up, not 

 without fome marks of dread upon 

 them, to an elderly Indian man, whofe 

 remarkable farly and ftern countenance 

 was well calculated to raife fuch fenfa- 



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