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obliged to fonse all hands, and go on a mile and crass 
the river before we could again encamp. 
Friday 2 \ st. We set out early, the day was clear, 
and we proceeded on four miles along bluffs on the 
south side, when we came to the termination of the 
Grand bend, about a mile from the place of our en- 
campment on the 19th — We again went on, having 
black bluffis on the south and a handsome bottom on 
the north side ; and beyond these a cedar bottom on: 
the south side and bluffs on the north ; passed a creek 
on the south side, called Tyler's creek , and encamped 
on the north side. ^ 
Saturday 22nd, We embarked early ill a foggy 
morniiig, saw some timber on the south side and 
high plains on the north. About 3 o'clock we pas- 
sed cedar island, one of the Three-Sisters, where 
Mr. Lucelle had built a fort of cedar. The space 
picketed in is about 65 or TO feet square, with centry 
boxes in tv/o of the angles. The pickets are 13 1-2 
feet above ground. In this square he built a house 
45 1-2 by 32 1-2 feet, and divided it into four equal 
parts, one for goods, one to trade in, one to be used 
as a common hall and the other for a family house. 
Here the two men came to us with the horse. They 
had killed a white wolf and some deer. We proceed- 
ed on, passed a creek, and islands of the three sisters ;, 
and an old Indian camp, where we found some of 
their dog-poles, which answer for setting pole&. 
The reason they are called dog-poles, i-s because the 
Indians fasten their dogs to them, and make theui 
draw them from one camp to another loaded witi* 
skins and other articles.* We encamped on th« 
^orth side. 
* Mr. Mackenzie speakings of the Knisteneaux, a numer* 
oils nation of Indians spread over a vast extent of country 
extending south westerly from the coast of Labrador, north 
of tit St Laurence ar^d Its Lakes and the Lake Wiur.ipic, 
