78 JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE THROUGH THE

CHAPTE R VL

Employ the towing line. Defcription of a place where the Indians come
to collett funt. Ther fhyne/s and fufpicions. Current lefens. Appear-
ance of the country. Abundance of hares. Violent florm. Land
near three lodges. Alarm of the Indians. Supply of fifh from them.
Their fabulous accounts. Continue to fee Indian lodges. Treatment of
a difeafe. Mifunderftanding with the natives. The interpreter harangues
them. Their accounts fimilar to thofe we have already received. Their
curtous conduct. Purchafe fome beaver fkins. Shoot one of their dogs.
The confequence of that att. Apprehenfions of the women. Large
quantities of liquorice, Swallow's nefls feen in the precipices. Fall
zn with a party of natives killing gee/e. Circumfances concerning them.
Hurricane. Variation of the weather. Kill great numbers of geese.

Abundance of feveral kinds of berries, State of the river and its
‘bank

1789.
july.

Faay oe Ar five we continued our courfe, but, ina very fhort time, were under
the neceflity of applying to the aid of the line, the ftream being fo ftrong
as to render all our attempts unavailing to ftem it with the paddles. We
paffed a fmall river, on each fide of which the natives and Ef{quimaux °
colleét flint, The bank is an high, fteep, and foft rock, variegated with

red,