— Se cee re INR ft HL THLET HON

Tue Ancient VILLAGE Site, Now Coverep By ALDER, AND THE Rock ON THE SOUTH
Siwe, To THE Lertr

to the south, and as Mackenzie used the natural horizon
for his latitude observation at noon, it is apparently
necessary to confine our search to the north shore.

“We landed, and found the ruins of a village, in a situation calcu-
lated for defence. The place itself was overgrown with weeds and in
the centre of the houses there was a temple, of the same form and con-
struction as that which I described at the large village. We were
soon followed by ten canoes, each of which contained from three to six
men. They informed us that we were expected at the village, where
we should see many of them. From their general deportment | was
very apprehensive that some hostile design was meditated against us,
and for the first time I acknowledged my apprehensions to my people.
I accordingly desired them to be very much upon their guard, and to be

prepared if any violence was offered to defend themselves to the
last.”

View or Tue Rock From THE Soutn, SHEWING THE Canoe LANDING

22 See pp. 345-346, Mackenzie’s Voyages.

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