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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 unclear 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