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JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE THROUGH THE

ceeded with great caution,'as we continually expeéted to approach fome
great rapid or fall. This was fuch a'prevalent idea, that all of us were
occafionally perfuaded that we heard thofe founds which betokened a fall
of water.. Our courfe: changed to Welt by North, along the mountains,
twelve miles, N: orth by Weft twenty-one miles, andat eight o'clock in the
evening we went on fhore for the night on the North fide of the river.
We faw feveral encampments of the natives, fome of which. had’ been.
ereéted in the prefent {pring, and others at fome former period, The

- hunters. killed only one {wan and a beaver: the latter was the firft of

Friday 3.

its kind which we had feen in this river. "The Indians complained of the
perfeverance with which. we pufhed forward, and that they were not,
accuftomed to fuch fevere fatigue as it occafioned.

The rain was. continual through the night, and did not fubfide till
feven this morning, when we embarked and {teered North-North-Weft for
twelve miles, the river being enclofed by high mountains on either fide.
We hada {trong head-wind, and the rain was fo violent as. to compel
us to land at ten o'clock. _ According to. my reckoning, fince my laf
obfervation, we had run two hundred and feventeen miles Weft, and
forty-four miles North. At a quarter paft two the rain fubfided, and.
we got again under way, our former courfe continuing for five miles.
Here a river fell in from the North, and in a {hort time the current be-
came ftrong and rapid, running with great rapidity among rocky iflands,
which were the firft that we had feen in this river, and indicated our
near approach to rapids and falls. Our prefent courfe was North-
Welt by North ten miles, North-Weft three miles, Weft-North-Weft
twelve miles, and North-Weft three miles, when we encamped at eight

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