NORTH-WEST CONTINENT OF AMERICA.

which he boafted an intimate acquaintance. On our putting to shore,
in order to leave his canoe, he informed us, that on the oppofite hill the
Efquimaux, three winters before, killed his grandfather. We faw a fox,
and a ground hog on the hill, the latter of which the brother of our
guide fhot with his bow and arrow. :

About four in the afternoon we perceived a f{moke on the Weft fhore,
when we traverfed and landed. The natives made a moft terrible
uproar, talking with great vociferation, and running about as if they
were deprived of their fenfes, while the greater part of the women, with
the children, fled away. Perceiving the diforder which our appearance
occafioned among thefe people, we had waited fome time before we
quitted the canoe; and I have no doubt, if we had been without
people to introduce us, that they would have attempted fome violence
againft us; for when the Indians fend away their women and children, it
is always with an hoftile defign. At length we pacified them with the
ufual prefents, but they preferred beads to any of the articles that I
offered them; particularly fuch as were of a blue colour; and one of
them even requefted to exchange a knife which I had given him for a
{mall quantity of thofe ornamental baubles. I purchafed of them two
fhirts for my hunters; and at the fame time they prefented me with
fome arrows, and dried fifth. This party confilted of five families, to
the amount, as I fuppofe, of forty men, women, and children; but I did
not fee them all, as feveral were afraid to venture from their uals
places. They are called Deguthee Dinees, or the Quarrelters.

Our guide, like his predeceffors, now manifefted his wifh to leave us,
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