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1789.
September,
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—
Wednef, 9.

‘Thurfday 10.

JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE THROUGH THE

We embarked at five in the morning, and our canoe was damaged
on the mens’ fhoulders who were bearing it over the carrying-place,
called Portage du Chetique. The guide repaired her, however,
while the other men were employed in carrying the baggage. The
canoe was gumrned at the carrying-place, named the Portage de la Mon-
tagne. After having pafled the carrying places, we eacamped at the
Dog River, at half paft four in the afternoon, in a fiate of great fatigue.
The canoe was again gummed, and paddles were made to replace thofe
that had been broken in afcending the rapids. A fwan was the only
animal we killed throughout the day.

There was rain and violent wind during the night:.in the morn-
ing the former fubfided and the latter increafed. At half paft five
we continued our courfe with a North-Wefterly wind. At feven we
hoifted fail: in the forenoon there were frequent fhowers of rain
and hail, and in the afternoon two fhowers of fnow: the wind was at
this time very ftrong, and at {ix in the evening we landed at a lodge
of Knifteneaux, confifting of three men and five women and children.
They were on their return from war, and one of them was very fick:
they feparated from the reft of their party in the enemy’s country, from
abfolute hunger. After this feparation, they met with a family of the
hoftile tribe, whom they deftroyed. They were entirely ignorant of the -
fate of their friends, but imagined, that they had returned to the Peace
River, or had perifhed for want of food. I gave medicine to the fick,#

and

* This man had conceived an idea, that the people with whom he had been at war, had thrown *
medicine at him, which had caufed his prefent complaint, and that he de{paired of recovery. The
natives are fo fuperftitious, that this idea alone was fufficient to kill him. Of this weakne(s I took ad-

Vantage ;