natives began tó fo g ' in a manner, very différent from what I had Ifêén
aeeuftomed to hear amongfatögös*>' It wfcsfcdt $fc*idlé£a-nfcÉ#ffe#urith?
dancing, drum, Or rattle; buttdnftfted oftfpft, jdaintfoe tosès, and a tnodn-
l«foft*bat^as tathepa^eeablt:5M bad fefflewbatsfïtbèair oftchureh mufe.-
As the natures bad te^uefod me not to quit tfaek at & ve*y,earfytfeó*H’ kt
the morning, b was five beforei defired that tfaeyoung: mef, who wdre to*
proceed with m ftoold.idépa®^^ra-ih^'pi^red'itoifet^asèM^ om
calling to durgaide to; condpëf -t»i fa® faith that fae didüiie# iaateiidi to
accompany -ns- any farther, as the young men would aofwehouir püipófe
as mé& as himfeE I knew it? vfouldl ber id- wrai«of>natiot&ad with;
him, and therefore fhbnsitfcedi to b» caprice rwfahónf.a,«?»ppP Homètèti, I
thought proper to inform him, that one ó f my people Had; loft bp. dag/>
or poignard, and requeued hisaffiftance in the foefawerycpfife -Healked
me what I would give him .to conjure b back again ; and a knife was
agreed to be the paoe df. hfe ne<adtntotid-. esertipfc^ Accordingly, al 1 *
the dags and lawét&fc»
formed a circle round- them; the eanjnna-^ affo h^ainihg-te^falfaiiddleU
Whets this partof tlw i^remony ^as aranged, fo b%aW%Jin^itbe njirttt
joining k the c h o r u s e d after fomeftme hé produced the<pojg«i)rd
which ;was ftruck in the ground, and relurned it to mo. iit
At fëVén we were ready to depart-, wheat k was furprifed-r© hear, óür
1 afë ’gtódë j&öpöfö, without any folifiitmaort on oucpart jto refkme teiOÖiffie^
and he- aanaWycondhaed us as faras-a foallbke, wheite we fouadancm
qampment of three families. The yewngmen who had tmtoakehlmeon-
duft ps were not well underftood by my interpreters, who continued to
bo fodtfpléaftdwhh their journey, Eat they performedthis . part ó f tleir
duty
duty with great-relufknce. I;endeavoured to perfuade an elderly man ‘ 798-
o f this encampment to accompany us to the next tribe, but no induce- —-v——*
mént qS mine,cQuM.prevailbn himitó eomplyiwiitfa tny. wilheS. ï was,
therefore,; obliged- to. content myfelf with the guides, I had already engaged,
for whom >we. were- obliged f to wait fojme -time, till they had
provided flioes for- their journey* I- exchanged twp halfpence here,
One of;; his prèfent' Majefty, and the other/o f the,,Rtate o f Maffa-
ehufet’s Bay, coined; in -1787. They hung as ornaments in children’s
oars..
|ÿ MyRtualiqn. here was rendered rather unplëafaïnt fay. the treatment
-which my hunters received from thefeipeopk. The former, it appeared,
were’cbnfidered’ as belonging >to a tribe Who inhabifcstfae mountains, and
.are -the natural enemies o f the latter. We had alfo been, told ;by one of
the' natives, oft a very ftern afpeóè, that hefaâd bëen.ftabbed by a relation
of their-s, and pointed- to a fear as the proof o f it. I was* there-
Tote, ivery glad ,to proceed-on my journey.
A Our guides conduced us along the lake through- thick, woods, and
without any path, for about a rfiile and an half, when we.'l©,ft fighfoof it.
This, piece of watdr .is about three,'miles long and-©ne b’road. We then
croffed a creek and-èhtered upon a beaten, track, through an open country;
fprinkled with cypreft Reë's'iîA At twelve -the Iky became black,
:and 'an heavy guft with ‘rain fhordy fol-lowed, which continued for' Up- ,
wards of an hour.ft When we perceived the approaching ftorm, we fixed
our thin, light oil-cloth to fereen ns from it. On-renewing our march,
as the bulbes wérë'^sry wÈt, I dèfîrëd ctór guides*'they having, îno bur-
P p v dens,