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lutely neceflary that the flores provided for our future voyage fhould ps
remain untouched. The fifh we now caught were carp, poiffon ine —“—~
connu, white fifh, and tréek.

It rained during the greateft part of the preceding night, and the Wednel so,
weather did not clear up till the afternoon of this day. This circum-
{tance had very much weakened the ice, and I fent two of the Indians on
an hunting party to a lake at the diftance of nine miles, which, they
informed me, was frequented by animals of various kinds. Our fifhery

this day was not fo abundant as it had been on the preceding afternoon.

The weather was fine and clear with a ftrong wefterly wind. The Thurfday1:.
women were employed in gathering berries of different forts, of which
there are a great plenty; andI accompanied one of my people to a {mall
adjacent ifland, where we picked up fome dozens of {wan, geefe, and
duck-eggs; we alfo killed a couple of ducks and a goofe.

In the evening the Indians returned, without having feen any of the
larger animals. A fwan and a grey crane were the only fruits of their
expedition. We caught no other fifh but a {mall quantity of pike,
which is too common to be a favourite food with the people of the

country. The ice moved a little to the eaftward.

-- The weather continued the fame as yeflerday, and the mufquitoes Friday i2.
- began to vifit us in great numbers. The ice moved again in the fame
direction, and I afcended an hill, but could not perceive that it was

broken in the middle of the lake. The hunters killed a goofe and three
ducks,

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