26 JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE THROUGH THE

sho. violent tempeft came on, with thunder, lightning, and rain, which, how-
t-a—— ever, foon ceafed, but not before we had. fuffered the inconvenience of
being drenched by it. The Indians were very much fatigued, having
been employed in running after wild fowl, which had lately caft their
feathers; they, however, caught five fwans, and. the fame number of
geefe. Ifounded feveral times in the courfe of the’ days aud rons has

four to fix fathoms water -

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