My second present was to throw down the

This evidence of affection satisfied them, and three of their

Chiefs thanked me publicly in speeches which one could not be persuaded issued from the lips of

men called savages. Nevertheless they seek me every where to give me my parting feast, consideration being invited in

all the men and women of my name into our cabin, according to the custom of the country, in

order to do honor to my departure.

We part in good company.

After the public cry of the Chief,

every one vies to carry our little baggage.

About half a league from there we found a group of old men, all Chiefs of the Council, who waited to bid me Adieu hoping for

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my return for which they ardently testified their wishes.

We arrive at the entrance of a small lake in a large half dried basin we taste the water of ;

a spring that they durst not drink, saying that there is a Demon in it which renders it fetid

;

having

and in fact we made Salt from it as natural as that of which we carried a sample to Quebec. This lake abounds in^fish in salmon trout

tasted it I found it was a fountain of Salt water ;

from the sea

;

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and other fish. 17th.

We enter their river, and at a quarter of a league meet at the left the Seneca river, which

increases this ;

it leads,