,^2 WHITE'S JOURNAL OF A 
1788. At fome little diftance from the place where we were 
a flieep lay dead. As foon as he had difcovered it, he took 
it by the horns, and, as well as we could underftand him, 
he was extremely inquifitive and anxious to know what it 
was. When his curiofity was fatisfied, he went into the 
canoe, where the woman had been waiting for him. 
About ten or twenty yards from the fbore, among the 
long grafs, in the fballow water, he ftruck and took with 
his fifh-gig feveral good fifli ; an acquifition to which, 
at this feafon of the year, it being cold and wet, we 
were unequal. While he was engaged in watching for them, 
both he and the woman chewed fomething, which they 
frequently fpit into the water ; and which appeared to us, 
from his immediately flriking a fifli, to be a lure. While 
they were thus employed, one of the gentlemen with 
me fung fome fongs; and when he had done, the females 
in the canoes either fung one of their own fongs, or imitated 
him, in which they fucceeded beyond conception. Any 
thing fpoken by us they moft accurately recited, and 
this in a manner of which we fell greatly fhort in our 
attempts to repeat their language after them. 
While we were thus amicably engaged, all on a fudden 
they 
