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also with what we might want on a future oc¬ 
casion, in case we came to any place equally 
destitute of provisions as those which we had 
before stopped at; a precaution that was far 
from proving unnecessary. 
But to return. We found our canoes and 
baggage just as we had left them, and having 
embarked once more, we made the best of our 
way down to the house where we had bespoke 
breakfast, which stood on the banks of the 
river. The people here were extremely civil; 
they assisted us in making fresh paddles in lieu 
of those which we had lost the night before; 
and for the trifle which we gave them above 
what they asked us for our breakfasts they were 
very thankful, a most unusual circumstance in 
the United States. 
After breakfast we pursued our way for 
about seven miles down the river, but in the 
course of this distance we were obliged to <ret 
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into the water more than a dozen different 
times, I believe, to drag the canoes over the 
shoals; in short, by the time we arrived at a 
house in the afternoon, we were so completely 
disgusted with our water conveyance, that had 
we not been able to procure two men, as we 
did in the neighbourhood, to conduct our ca¬ 
noes to the mouth of Tyoga River, where 
there was reason to imagine that the water 
would be found deeper, we should certainly 
