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Was great abundance of game; or, in short, if 
we did not proceed just according to their 
fancy, impatient of every restraint, and with- 
out caring in the least for the hire we had pro¬ 
mised them, they would, perhaps, leave us in 
the whim of moment to shift for ourselves in 
the woods, a situation we had no desire to see 
ourselves reduced to : we determined therefore 
to proceed by PresquTsle. But now another 
difficulty arose, namely, how we were.to get 
•there : a small vessel, a very unusual circum¬ 
stance indeed, was just about to sail, but it was 
so crowded with passengers, that there was 
not a single birth vacant, and moreover, if 
there had been, we did not wish to depart so 
abruptly from this part of the country. One 
of the principal traders, however, at Detroit, 
to whom w r e had carried letters, soon accom¬ 
modated matters to our satisfaction, by pro¬ 
mising to give orders to the master of one of the 
lake vessels, of which he was in part owner, to 
land us at that place. The vessel was to sail 
in a fortnight; we immediately therefore se¬ 
cured a passage in her; and having settled with 
the master that he should call for us at Malden, 
we set off once more for that place in our little 
boat, and in a few hours, from the time we 
quitted Detroit, arrived there. 
