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JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE THROUGH THE
Undertaking, and the canoe;wak" feady*tb 'Be eafried in the morning-
An” hearty meaLconcluded'thjfe^dayr'ahd every fea r of hiture' want was.
removed.;
1 When tfie* morning dawnedwe'fet forward^, but as a fire had’ paffe^
through the portage-; 'it was! with difficulty wt cbuld trace dhr road m
many parts; and with aU did
not arfivl? at ‘the5 nvbf till'four iff the afternoon:' ' We' ftfuftl almofft
as much difficulty in tarrying out ciffih :dWtt'di% ffiountafff-as-we-
had i i }lJ m g r4 'u p ;VtKff TTren ^ fftoh gWon the former
©Gcafion, though-’they1 Wdre m M e r fpitit^-and I ^ h oV -e ffab d ed
to affift theftr, my ancleHbeing Aalmoft'we#f We cduld'^ridt^howeverv"-
proceed- any further tilt the following day; as-we-had the canodto gum-,
with feveral great and final! poles to prepare’; * thdfe’%e %ad dSft ^ r e -
having beefc carried away by the water, though. We had-left them-in a
pofltrdn from fifteen to^twehty feet-a b o ^ ^ - ‘wStdr-*mark,-:at^^t time.
Thefe occupations employed us till a very late honh.
The night was5 cold, and though the morning wasffine 'and cfear/ it
was-feven before we 'wHredn aftate o f prepafmiorftto le^ e tHiss'plhb%
foffietuhes driving with'the'current, and at 'other times* ffiooting' the
fapids. The latter had Toft*' much- of- t®ir^fdrmer"ftrength;'-bu:t- wey
neverthelefs, thought it neceffary to ’ land very freqbently; m o'rder'tfcy
Examine the rdpids before wb'cMld venture to run them,- MotfeV&tf
we* very 'fortunately paffed thettl* ell, -and at
boon arrived- at the5 place where I appointed to meet Mr. Mackay and
the? hunters;; theife 'tfeTciand therewith
ready
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feady roafted, as they had killed two elks within a few hundred yards of
the fpot where WeUhen were. When the nien had fatisfied their appetites,
I fent them for as? much^of ffhe- meat as they could carry. In
■ leoming hither, Mr. Mackay informed-me, that he and the hunters kept
along the high land, and did not fee or crofs the Indian path. At the
feme time, there can be no doubt but the road from this place to the
Upper ’ pait - of - the: rapids 'i's to. be preferred''to that which we came, both
for-expèditioh 'âhdfafëüy-. *
After flaying here about an hour-and an half, we proceeded with
tfeb ftreaHvarid landed w lè fé l had’ forgbttêffriiy pipe-tomahawk and
feal, onteêigKteedth ô f May. ^TKe former o f them I now'recovered, *
. On -lèâ'vihg .the mountains we few animals": grazing in every'’'direction.
In paffing along an ifland,,we fired at ani-elk^and-broke-its
legs 'and, as'.'if' Was&rioW -tifnè to ehea'Mp, we landed; when the
huriteVs’ purfee'd ^he^^Qfindbd. animal, Which ‘ h a d '.e fb fe 'o v e r to
the;-mam ferid^but tffelfc h o f get'sup-the-bank. We Went after it,
the-refbrdfbn. the ’canb’è; andVkflled it. To give fdme - notion of our
appetites, I ffiall ftàtè the elk, or at leaft the carcafe o f it, which we
•brought awây, to have weighed-two hundred -and fifty pounds * and as
we,had,taken a very hearty meal at one o'clock, it might naturally be
fuppofed. that we fhôûldnot be very voracious at fupper'; n'everthelefs,
a kettle fulhoflthe-elk.flelh was boiled and èâten, and that veflel re-
plenifhed; and- put oh the fire. All .'that remained, with the bones,
4 c. was .placed, after the Indian fefeion, round the fire to roaft,
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