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JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE THROUGH THE
North-Weft. We were enabled to employ the fail during part of the

poe) day, and encamped at about feven in the evening. We killed eleven

Friday 31.

old geefe and forty young ones which had juft begun to fly. The Englith
chief was very much irritated againft one of his young men: that jealoufy
occafioned this uneafinefs, and that it was not without very fuf-
ficient caufe, was all I could difcover. For the laft two or three days
we had eaten the liquorice root, of which there is great abundance on

the banks of the river. We found it a powerful aftringent.

The rain was continual throughout the night, and did not fubfide till
nine this morning, when we renewed our progrefs, The wind and
weather the fame as yefterday. About three in the afternoon it cleared
up and the wind died away, when it became warm. At five the wind
veered to the Eaft, and brought cold along with it. There were plenty
of whirtle berries, rafpberries, and a berry called Potre, which grows
in the greateft abundance. We were very much impeded in our
way by fhoals of fand and fmall ftones, which render the water
fhallow at a diftance from the fhore, In other places the bank of the
river is lofty: it is formed of black earth and fand, and, as it is conti-
nually falling, difplayed to us, in fome parts, a face of folid ice, to within
a foot of the furface. We finifhed this day’s voyage at a quarter before
eight, and in the courfe of it killed feven geefe,

We now had recourfe to our corn, for we had only confumed three
days of our original provifion fince we began to mount the current,
It was my intention to have afcended the river on the South fide from

the