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them, from the fort, which they tafted 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 loofe 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 pofflble to favelife. This ifland 
was nigheft, and with much working they got 
on fhore there. At firft they were glad; but 
when they had confider’d every thing, they 
thought themfelves hardly in a better ftate 
than if they had gone down the f^ll, fince they 
had now no other choice, than either to throw 
themfelves down the fame, or to perifh 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 diredfly and made a ladder or 
fhrouds of the bark of lindentree (which is 
very tough and ftrong,) fo long ’till they 
could with it reach the water below ; one end 
of this bark ladder they tied faft to a great 
tree that grew at the fide of the rock a- 
bove the fall, and let the other end down 
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