NORTH-WEST CONTINENT OF AMERICA.

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Continiie onr'courfe. “The river narrows. Loft the lead. Paffed a fnall

river. ° Violent rain. “Land on a fmall land. Expell to arrive at the
rapids. Conceal tzio bags of pemican inan ifland. A view of mountains.

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- Pafs feveral encampments of the natives. Arrive among the iflands.

- Afeend an high hill. Violence of the current. Ice feen along the banks
; of the river. Land at a village of the natives. Their conduét and
appearance, Their fabulous ftortes. The Englifh Chief and Indians

i difcontented. Obtain a new guide. Singular cuftoms of ihe natives.

An account of their dances. Defcription of their perfons, drefs, orna-
ments, buildings, army for war and ‘hunting, canoes, c. Paffed on
among iflands. Encamped beneath an hull, and prevented from afcending
by the mufquitoes. Landed at an encampment. Condutt of the inha-

bitants. They abound in fabulous ‘accounts of dangers. Land at other

~encampments. Procure plenty of hares and partridges. Our ‘guide

anxious to return. Land and alarm the natives, called the Hare
Indians, &c. Exchange our guide. State of the weather.

At half paft four in the morning we continued our, voyage, and in

1789.
july.

cen potoeed
-Wednef. 1.

a fhort time found the river narrowedto about half a mile. Our

courfe was Wefterly among) iflands, with a_firong current. ‘Though

the land is high on both fides, the banks are not perpendicular. This)

E 2 courfe