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we passed green island + our frail vessel making much water we put ashore to repair and to gum her bottom and to take our breakfast, which having finished we again pursued our course, under favorable prospects. The principal part of the shore for out route of today is iron-bound and in stormy weather there are but few places at which a boat could land without being broken to pieces. The rocks are in many places lofty and present the appearance of being heavy? with age. The spruce is numerous and beautiful on the shore and in the distance is succeeded by the pine. The sun rose pleasantly and the mists on the heights represented the chimnies of civilization: they appeared like separate smokes but passed away with the morning dew. So far we have met no Indians, though we now occupy the ground of one of their former camps. The Chippewa + Menominee tribes have a belief of a future state, in which they are all happy, unclear unclear hunting grounds + plenty of game. The good Indian goes there immediately after death. But those who have done evil are for a time detained at an intermediate place in a state of probation. The ground as usual is covered with a carpet of flowers and the beauties of nature compel the mind of man to bow with reverence to the magnifience of omnipotence, and to feel that he is but a speck on the ocean of eternity. I could not bu remark the happy faculty of habit in our host at breakfast; not having tea-spoons, I stirred my tea with a fork and he broke off a branch of the wild cherry that grew at his side, and performed the same service therewith. We are now traveling pleasantly on the green waters our crew are cheering themselves with their song, which generally has a madamoiselle, or beautiful young lady, a brave chavalier or a young officer for all the french songs in this quarter must have for their foundation either love, beauty or war. We had proceeded rapidly for about fifteen miles, when the wind suddenly rose from the west, and as we were opposite our iron-bound shore it was impossible to land it continued to rise and at length became a perfect gale. Our canoe shipped a heavy sea and the crew were for putting down their paddles and pushing he on the rocks on shore; which if they had done she would have been dashed to pieces in a moment. And if our lives had been saved we should have been left a long distance in the wilderness without the means of