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We reached the town about fun-fet, equally 
pleafed with our having improved the oppor- 
tunity fo well by feeing Ontario lake, and 
that we were returned fafe to the interpreter 
and Indian Chiefs ; thofe two laft da}^s had 
been pretty warm : our Indian guide was a 
fullen, illnatured, and I believe, a fuperftitious 
fellow. Every now and then as we paddled 
up the river, he would with a compofed coun- 
tenance utter fomewhat pretty loud for about 
the fpace of two minutes at a time, whether it 
was a magical incantation, or a prayer, I can’t 
tell ; I am fatisfied it was no fong, nor any 
fpeech directed to us, or the Indian with him, 
for he feemed intirely unmoved all the time. 
2 Stk, This was a rainy thundering warm 
day, and two deputies arrived from the Onei- 
does. News came that the worms had de- 
ftroyed abundance of corn and grafs in Ca.nada. 
This night we were troubled with fleas, and 
what was worfe, our men exceeding drunk and 
noify ; our grievances in the day were more 
tolerable, being only women infefting us with 
their companj^ and bawling, in great good 
humour, indeed I perceived to no quarrel 
while among them. 
29 th, Several more deputies arrived from 
the Tufcaroroes , we went to vifit a poor ema- 
ciated Indian , who they faid was bewitched, 
he lived about a mile from the Council-Houfe , 
This 
