NORTH-WEST CONTINENT OF AMERICA.

of loathfome rottennefs, we have every reafon to fuppofe they are eaten
by the natives. We paid for thofe which we had taken, and departed.
At feven in the evening, the weather became cloudy and overcaft; at
eight we encamped; at nine, it began to thunder with great violence;
an heavy rain fucceeded, accompanied with an hurricane, that blew down
our tents, and threatened to carry away the canoe, which had been
faftened to fome trees with a cod-line. The ftorm lafted two hours and

deluged us with wet.

Yeflerday the weather was cloudy and the heat infupportable; and
now we could not put on clothes enough to keep us warm. We
embarked at a quarter paft four with an aft wind, which drove us
on at a great rate, though the current is very flrong. At ten we came to
the other rapid which we got up with the line on the Weft fide, where
we found it much ftronger than when we went down; the water had
alfo fallen at leaft five feet fince that time, fo that feveral fhoals appeared
in the river which we had not feen before. One of my hunters narrowly
efeaped being drowned in croffing a river that falls in from the Welt-
ward, and is the moft confiderable, except the mountain river, that
flows in this dire@tion. We had ftrong Northerly and cold wind
throughout the whole of the day, and took our ftation for the night
at a quarter paft eight. We killed a goofe and caught fome young

ones.

We renewed our voyage at four this morning after a very rainy night.
The weather was cloudy, but the cold had moderated, and the wind was
N 2 North-

Wednelf. 29.

Thurfday 30,