296 TRAVELS THROUGH NORTH AMERICA: 
very agreeably surprised, for the first time, with 
the sight of a large birch canoe upon the lake, 
navigatedby two or three Indians in the dresses 
of their nation. They made for the shore and 
soon landed; and shortly after another party, 
amounting to six or seven, arrived, that had 
..come by land. 
On hoard our little vessel we had a poor 
Canadian, whom we took in at Skencsborough. 
Tempted by the accounts he had heard of the 
United States, he quitted his own home in 
Canada, where lie lived under one of the * 
seigniors; and had gone as far as Albany, in 
the neighbourhood of which place he had 
worked for some time with a farmer: but 
finding, that although he got higher wages, 
he had to pay much more for his pro- 
visions than in Canada, and that he was also 
most egregiously cheated by the people, and 
particularly by bis employer, from whom he 
could not get even the money he had earned; 
finding likewise that he was unable to procure 
any redress, from being ignorant of the Eng¬ 
lish language, the poor fellow determined to 
return to Canada, and on his way thither we 
met him, without a shilling in his pocket. 
Having asked this little fellow, as we sailed 
along, some questions about the Indians, he 
immediately gave us a long account of a Cap¬ 
tain Thomas, a chief of the Cachenocaga na» 
