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them, from the fort, which they tailed feveral 
times as they were going over the carrying 
place ; and when they were in the canoe, 
they took now and then a dram, and fo went 
along up the ftrait towards the Ifland where 
they propos’d to hunt but growing, fleepy, 
they laid themfelves down in the canoe, which 
getting loole drove back with the ftream, far- 
ther and farther down till it came nigh that 
ifland that is in the middle of the fall. Here 
one of them, awakened by the noife of the fall, 
cries out to the other, that they were gone ! 
yet they try’d if poflible tolavelife. This ifland 
was nigheft, and with much working they p 
on fnore there. At far ft they were glad; 
when they had confider’d every thing, they 
thought themfelves hardly in a better ftale 
than if they had gone down the fall, fince they 
had now no other choice, than ei her to throw 
themfelves down the fame, or to perilh with 
hunger. But hard neceffity put them on in- 
vention. At the lower end of the ifland the 
rock is perpendicular, and no* water is running 
there. This ifland has plenty of wood they 
went to work direaiy and made a ladder or 
fhrouds of the bark of lindentree, ( winch ,s 
very tough and ftrong, ) fo long till they 
could with it reach the water below one end 
of this bark ladder they bed 68 to a great 
tree that grew at the fide of the rock a- 
h/v.e' the 'tali, and let the other end down 
