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Show TRAVELS THROUGH UPPER CANADA: fince the lafi feparation, and in the evening returned to our refpective !hips. About midnight the wind became hir, and whiHl: we lay wr:-tpt in O.!cp the vcffds put to fea. All hopes of being abk to get on {hore at Prefqu' Hlc were now over, for the capt.tin, as our veilCl w,t in fuch a ticklifh conJition, · was fearful f venturing in th ere, ldl: he might lofe fi ght of the !loop; we made up our minds, therefore, for beit1g c:trricd once more to our old quarters, Fort E ri ·; and after a mofl: di.Gtgrceablc pa!bgc of four days, Juring which we encountered feveral fqualls 110t a little alarming, landed there in f.tfety. Our friends immediately fet out for Newark, from whence, if the feafon would admit of it, and a favourable opportunity offered, they propofed to fail to Kingfi:on, and proceed afterwards to Lower Canada; we, on the contrary, dcfirous of r ·turning by a difF·rent route from that by which we lud come up the cou ntry, croHcd over to Buffalo Creek, in hopes of being able to procure horfcs at the Indian village there, to carry us through the Genefee country. To onr diGtppointmcnt we found, that all the Indians of the village who had horfcs had already fet out with them on their hunting expedition; but the interpreters told us, that if we would confent to walk through the woods, as f.'lt• as the fettlements of the white people, the nearefi: of which wa ninety miles from Buffalo Creek, he did not doubt but that he could find Indians in the village who would undertake to carry our baggage for us; and that once arrived at the back fettlements, we fhould find it no difficult matter to hire horfcs. We readily agreed to his propofals, and he in confequence foon picked cut from the Indians five men, amongfi: which was a war chief, on whom he told us we might place every reliance, as he was a man of an excellent charaCter. The Indians, it was (ettlcd, were to have five dollars apiece for their fervices, and we were to furniCh them with provifions and liquor. The interpreter, who was a white man, put us on our guard agaiull: giving them too much of the latter; but he advifcJ us always to give them fame whenever we took ~ny ourfelves, and advifed us alfo to eat with them, and to behave towards them in every refpect as if they were our ec1uals. We had already fec tl JOUnNEY THROUGH TOE WOODS. ~cr11 enough of tht- Indians, to 1 now th,lt this a vice was good, anti md( cd to have ado,;)tcd of ourfclves the line of condw.:. which he rc:commcndcd, even if he had f1id nothing on th..; fu jc ·. Ihvin r :J.rranged every tiling to our ·cltisf;t~tion, we returned to Fort Eric; there we difj1ofecl of ~ 11 our fl pcrfluoLL ba'r~ag ·, and luvintr mack fo nc ackiition t '> the florc:s of dric l prov:fions and. bift uits which onr I in l fi·:cnd Ca 1tai.1 E h;ld furni(hcd us with on J ·aving his lJOfj)itabk roof, \\C cn,harl ·d, \\ith all b loll'>in'r to us in the f1ll,)" l>ott - b' ' [" . , for the villa 2c on 3ufE l reck, when; we h:1.cl fcttlul to p<•r the nigl t, in order to be r~.;ady to fbrt early the n ·xt morning. The Indi:tn were ' ith us accordin3· t appointn cnt at day br-.:tk; they livid ·J the b:-tggagc, faflened their }o;tds c.tcb on their carrying frames, and appeared p..,1 fc.: . ly ready tC? dcp:l rt, when th ir ·hieF rc 1udl:cd, through the interpret -r, " that we woul~l give them \)-.:fore they i~·t out " a little of that prccic,ns water we po0d1 ·d, to W<lfh tht~ir cyLs with, " whi :h \\ould Jifpd the mifis of fLcp that fiill hun~ ovc:r th <.:Jn, antl " thus enable them to find out with c Tttti'lty the intri ,lte path tl1rough " the thick fordl: we were about to tr,wcr(c ;" in ot 1cr words, rhH we would give them fome br.mdy. It is ah .1ys in f1gurative l.J.nguagc of this kind that the Ir dians afk for fpiri.ts. \V c difpcu(c d a glafs full of the precious liquor, according to th ·ir dd!r..:, to each of them, as well as to tl Lir fqtta\\' and c ildrrn, whom they brou~ht alonJ \\.ith them to fharc our bounty, and then, the Indi<tns h.tving t,tl -en up t1Kir lo1ds, we penctr.ttcd into the woodJ, along a narro v 111th /( .lr dy di[ccrnibk, owing to the quantities of withered ktvcs with wl11ch it was il:rew · I. Aftcr pror!.:cding a ft.: v miles, we fi:uppeJ hy the fi ,J,; of a l'ulc ftrcam of clear w.tter to b:·cakhtfl ; on tht: banks of anothcr !lrc 1m \Vt: .at our dinner; and at a third w iloppeJ for the night. I I. vinu laid down their 1 ads, the I nclt· n immediately began to crdt poks, and cov T thun with pi ·cc.s of lark, which they found lyin,; on the ground, at d which had evidently been left therc by fo nc traveller· who had taken np their quarters for thl.! nirrht at this fame place fomc time before; but we put a ftop to their work, by !baking out from the bag in which it 3 I was |