24S TRAVELS THROUGH UPPER CANADA ; 
they esteem it nothing to walk thirty miles a 
day for several days together under a load of 
eight stone, and they will walk an entire day 
under a load without taking any refreshments 
In carrying burdens they make use of a sort of 
frame, somewhat similar to what is commonly 
used by a glazier to carry glass ; this is fastened 
by cords, or strips of tough bark or leather, 
round their shoulders, and when the load is 
fixed upon the broad ledge at the bottom of the 
frame, two bands are thrown round the whole, 
one of which is brought across the forehead, 
and the other across the breast, and thus the 
load is supported. The length of way an In- 
dian will travel in the course of the day when 
unencumbered with a load, is astonishing. A 
young Wyandot, who, when peace was about 
to be made between the Indians and General 
Wayne, was employed to carry a message from 
his nation to the American officer, travelled 
but little short of eighty miles on foot in one 
day; and I was informed by one of the general's 
aids-de-camp, who saw him when he arrived at 
the camp, that he did not appear in the least 
degree fatigued, j 
Le P. Charlevoix observes, that the Indians 
seem to him to possess many personal advan^ 
1 ages over us; their senses, in particular, he 
Ihinks much finer than ours; their sight is, 
indeed, quick and penetrating, and it does not 
