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                       humbled, under a sense of making so slow a  progress, when
                       so much is put in our power, We are like to have our
                       patience tried, no opening yet appears when we shall be
                       like to be released, to turn homeward, and I find no better
                       way than to endeavour to be still, and feel after the
                       foundation, we are sometimes amused with the extraordinary
                       accounts of carrying on the fur trade to the N.west, we
                       are told that many hundred bushels of homony Cornunclear
                       yearly to M.cInor, where it is forwarded to the grand
                       portage, and there given out, one bushel to a man, who
                       uses none of it on his northern rout of about 1800 or
                       2000 Miles from the grand portage, it is to be his main
                       support in case of Sickness, accidents & for one whole
                       year, but whilst in health they substitute a kind of moss
                       which accumulates on the Rocks by reason of thick fogs, &
                       on Huckleberries, wild rice fish & this trade is also carried
                       on by white Canadians, who appear as hardy, & as Savage
                       as the Indians, and by their own account this company has
                       arrived to great opulence.
          27    5      A Shawnee Indian came to see us, & says he don't expect
                      the Treaty will be over before frost, (cold comfort) the
                      centinals cry out after the gates are shut, which is at 9 O clock
                      all is well every quarter of an hour, and I wish it was so, then
                      we should have reasonable ground to hope for success in the
                       Business we are come about, Capt. Drake came to see
                      us this evening he has followed the Seas for 30 years, and
                      has had the command of a Vessel on the Lakes for 4 years, he
                      appears healthy and drinks nothing but water, he says he
                      was in the Guinea trade several years, and whilst in
                      that employ he became so callist to tender feelings, as
                      to see no evil in it, but the cruelties exercised towards these