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Show TRAVELS THROUGH NORTII AMERICA: their nati n. They made for the {hore and foon landed; and {hartly after another party, amountine: to fix or [even, ~m·ived, that had come b)l bnd. On board our little vcffel we had a poor C.l!1adian, whom we took in at kcndborough. Tempted I y th · account he had heard o£ the United tatcs, he quitted his own home in Canada, where b~ lived under one of the feigniors, and had gone as lar as Alb:1.11y, in the nei ghbourhood of which place he h .td worked for [ome time with a f:mnn; but finding, that although he got higher wages, he had to pay much more for his provifions than in Canada, a1 d that he was alfo mofl: egr giouOy cheat d by the people, and particularly by his employ r, from whom he could not get even the money he had er~.rncd; finding likcwilc that he was unable to pr cure any redrefs, from being. ignorant of the Englifh language, the poor fellow d termined to return to Canada, :tnd on his way thither we met him, without a 01illing in his pocket. Having afl.::c:d this little fellow, as we failed along, fame quefiion~ about the Indittns, he immediately gave us a lo11g account of a aptain. Thomas, a chief of the Cachcnonaga nation, in the neighbourhood of whofc village he [aid he l'ived. Thomas, he told us, was a very rich man, and had a rnofi: excellent houfc, in which he faid he lived as well as a feignior, and he was fure we iliould be well receiv.ed if we went to fee him; he; told us alfo that he bad built a church, and was a chrifli:m; that he was very charitable, and tTl t if he w~re acquainted with his prcfcnt diflrcfs he would certainly make him a prefent of four or five dollars. " Oh je vou a[un:, mefficurs . que c'cfi: un bon fauvage.'' It was impoffible not to fmilc at the little Canadian, who, half naked himfelf, and nearly as dark as a mulatto, c<mcluded his panegyric upon Thomas, by atfuring us, cc. he was a. good favage ;" at the fame time we felt a {lrong defire to behold this chief, of whom we had heard fo much. It was not long before we were gratified, for the party of Indians that arrived whilfi we were at Chimney Point were from the Cachenonag:l "Village, and at their head was Captain Thomas •. Thomas appeared to be about forty-five years of age; he was nearly .£x feet high 1 and very bulky in proportion; this is a fort of make uncommon LAKE CIIAMPL I N. J'p ul~cot~m~ll ~mong t.he Indi t.n s, who are g ·n.:rally fl nd ·r. Tic was dicif~d hke a wlute 1 nn, 111 boots . his h·tir unt1'e 1 '- t l1 ) . ' ' l ' uu ll t 10rt ; t l. e people who attended hml were all in the I n crI an 11 .'1 b'I t. ot one of Ius followers could fpc ak a word of E nb1ifh or I• rcnch . T h I ld ] · {. 1 · r , ornJ. , 1 w _ ever, cou 11m c f 1pc. k both bn 0·uan·cs E nol'[} 1 , r l· · I · 1 . . ._, b • _, ~ l l 1e l J'O 1.C W ill iomc ltlhle· ·h efi·t atwn, :111d not c.o rree. tly.; but French iecn .(,;u' J "•lS f:• 1 m1'1·r· r. to 1. 111n as. rs native ton~u . lJIS pnnctpal :Ht ·ntion fl'cmcd to be clirct1 cd to. dw ardd s thra de, wlll h he had purfucd with oO "rcat fu cce lr:~ , {io muc I1 lrO m. - ee , t at, as we alt ·rwards heard, he cou1d get • l' · , n ' . M rcc 1t lll .tny ore 111 ontreal for five hundred pounds IIe had ·do . l 1 . I . > • . • ' • ng Wlt 1 11m at C llmncy 1 oml thtrty horfcs and a quantity of fi · · 1 , · • . . • Lit m t 1e canoe, whrch he was takmg fol falc to Albany. III. people he told us 1 . l b h ' ' l.tc ut very few bw.a nts1; 1c . toof k care to h. ave thefc a, lwa, ys fuppl.cd . I ; tn return they IO1 ug 1t . 111ll ·ur ' taken lll huntinoo·•. they ,a tteildcd I li.S h onre s and vo untanly accompanit.:d him when he \vent on a t .. l. J, ' . .' h . . . I cll 111g CXj)C 1 t1011: ·I S p10fits therefore mull: be unmcnfe. During th e COUll.<r..:, o [ con verf::t htw n he told us, that if we came to fc ·e bim he wo u ld ma 1< C us very-1a ppy; 1t lut there were fome very hand(ome fqua' ws ·:l< l•O h.r vt. II age, and t• Jat eac 1 of us D1ou1d have a wife: we promifcd to v1'f 1i t 1) 1. m 1' f· 1. t was rIl l our p. ower, and parted very good friends · Tl1o mas, as we acr terwar Is JOund, IS not a man refJJeeted amon(,).,' the India• ns 1.1 1 genera1 , w 11 0 t I1 1.n k J1u u. c1h, m.o re of a. chie.f that is a ~o· ood ,,-arrior 'a nd 11u 11 te,1., ,. ut d t11 at retm.n s 1t le u1o ·J ts of hJs natiOn, than of one that be omes 'a tr ' tde1. , an d aurr.l mr. - ates HS manners to thofc of the whites. dL a. ke Cha.m plain is about one hundred and tweJ1ty llll' I es 1.1 1 1c nnt1] a~ IS of vanous breadths : for the firfl: thirty miles, that is fi-om S 0 h' Rtvcr to. Cro wn p o·m t, J· t · . ' out lS m no place more than two miles wide. b yb ol)d th1s, for . the. difiancc of twelve miles ' it is five 0 1. f.J X m1' J cs ac' rofes-, u t cl then agam Jt narrows, and again at the end of •a fce w m1'1 es. ex-, pan s. That part called the Broad Lake, becaufc broader than . other , commences a b out twenty-five miles north of C. J) · andy . . I . town omt, an JS . Cig 1teen miles acrofs in the widefi part • Here tlle J'a l"· c 1·s 1.1 1 t c:r {ip crJr. td Wllh a great number of iOands, the largell:: of which, formerly called Grande Hle, now South Hero, is fifteen miles in length, and, on an * l"cmnlc I nclilln3. Z2 average, |