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beneficial Trade may be extended through 
the Hokio into the MiJfiJJtfyi and its branches 
among "the numerous nations that inhabit their 
banks It 'were to be wifhed, that the En~ 
glijh government in thefe parts had been more 
diligent in learching and furveying the heads 
of their own rivers and the fburces of the 
others that run wefhvards from the backs of 
their refpective provinces. Yet enough is al- 
ready kqown to juftify the furmifes of Mr. 
4e La Sale , who in his Journal addrefled to 
the Count de Froutenac expreffes his fears, left 
the Englijh , from their lettlements, fhould 
poffefs themfelves of the trade on the Mijjif- 
Jifyi. I quartered in a trader’s cabbin, and a- 
bout midnight the Indians came and called up 
him and his fquaw, who lay in a feparate part 
where the goods were depofited, whether to- 
gether or no I did not ask. She fold the 
Indians ruin, with which being quickly in- 
toxicated, men and woman began firft to fing 
and then dance round the fire; then the wo- 
men would run out to other cabbins and fbon 
return, leaving the men hinging and dancing 
the war dance, which continued all the next 
day. An Engljhman when very drunk will 
fall faft afleep for the moft part, but an In- 
dian, when merry, falls to dancing, running, 
and fhouting, which violent action probably 
may difperfc the fumes of the liquor, that 
had he fat {till or remained quiet, might have 
made 
