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 miKe. The firft thing the Indians did 

 was to take every thing out of their ca- 

 ooes; and after hauling them afliore, 

 they, made their wigwams. We paffed 

 this night, as generally we had done, 

 under a tree; hut what we fuflfered at 

 this time is not eafily to be expreffed. I 

 had been three days at the oar without 

 any kind of nourifliment, but the wretch- 

 ed root I mentioned before. I had no 

 Ihirt, as mine was rotted off by bits ; and 

 we were devoured by vermin. All my 

 cloaths confifted of an old fliort grieko, 

 which is fomething like a bearflcin, 

 with a piece of a waiftcoat under ir, 

 which once had been of red cloth, both 

 which I had on when I was caft away ; 

 I had a ragged pair of trowfers, without 

 either fhoe or flocking. The firft thing 

 the Indians did in the morning was to 

 take their canoes to pieces : and here, for 

 the information of the reader, it will be 

 peceflfary to defcribe the ftrudture of 



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