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banks, and had a moft uncomfortable 

 lodging, it being a perfect fwamp ; and 

 we had nothing to cover us, though it 

 rained very hard. The Indians Were 

 little better off than vv^e, as there was ho 

 wood here to make their wigwams 5 fo 

 that all they could do was to prop 

 up the bark they carry in the bot- 

 tom of their canoes with their oar$, and 

 ihelter themfelves as well as they could 

 to leeward of it. They, knowing the 

 difficulties that were to be encountered 

 liere, had provided themfelves with fome 

 Teal -y but we had not the leaft morfel to 

 eat, afier the heavy fatigues of the day, 

 excepting a fort of root we faw fome of 

 the Indians make ufe of, which was 

 very difagreeable to the tafte. We la- 

 boured all the next day againft the 

 ftream, and fared as we had done the day 

 before. The next day brought us to 

 the carrying-place. Here was plenty of 

 wood; but nothing to tx; got for fufte- 



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