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cabin left ns to go up this branch to his own 
country, that of the Cayagas , this night it rained 
a little, and the morning was very foggy. 
17 th. Day, we croffed the neck to the eaft 
branch of Sufquehanah , up which we travelled 
along a rich bottom of high grafs and woods of 
a fine creek, then over oak and pitch pine land 
to a fwampy run and fine meadow ground, 
then eaft through white and pitch pine, oak, 
hickery and hazel bottom, and fo N. B. to 
the river, where grew a white pine clofe to the 
water, with four green cones on, ftill we kept 
N. B. at 10 bore S. Here the river turned 
thus, occafioned by fome high barren moun- 
tains on the other fide, whofe tides came clofe 
to it, and turned the ftream in this crooked 
manner. We travelled through a fine vale of 
pine land. Here was a place where the Indi- 
ans had been a pawawing . They cut a parcel 
of poles, which they ftick in the ground in 
a circle, about the bignefs of hop poles, the circle 
about five foot diameter, and then bring them 
together at the top, and tie them in form of 
an * oven, where the conjurer placeth himfelf ; 
then his affiftants cover the cage over clofe 
with blankets and to make it ftill more 
fuffocating, hot ftones are rolled in ; after 
all this the prieft muft cry aloud, and agitate 
his 
* Vide Capt. Beverley's hift. of Virginia, 8 vo. a curious and 
ufeful work, and the Baron Labontan's entertaining voyages 
in these parts. 
