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1793 WD 6 mo. 26 4 had some excellent fish for Dinner, caught in Lake Superior 6 days before, and brought upwards of three hundred miles, fresh & good, we had the Company of Doctor Wright, lately married to Commadore Grant’s Daughter, who appear’d to be a lovely discreet young Woman. One of ourr Company shewed our friend Askin a few lines he had prepared to one Henry in Montreal, & told him he did not know but that if we were detained here much longer, we should stand in need of a friend to Assist, he replied, he wanted no lines, Gentlemen says he, if you want two or three hundred Pounds it is at your service, he signified, that he began with nothing, and had been twice reduced, so that he had not a Shilling, but his trust was in Providence, who never failed affording enough. Altho' I came to this place with some reluctance, I am now glad that I am here, he gave us a fellingly welcome Invitation to use his house freely whenever we pleased, after Tea we bid the family farewell, & took a walk without the Pickets, where we met 5 or 6 young Chippaway Indians from a place called M.canoy, about 400 miles distant, we accosted them with Sago? which appears to be understood by all the Tribes, how fares it or how do you do; but they refused to shake hands & said Shemockteman, Boston, we said no, we were from Philadelphia, they repeated the same again, which signifies long knife, a name they have given to the Virginians, as a Warlike People, these young Indians I thought might be compared to some, whom the World calls young Bucks, who know enough, & care but little for any Body, or the wild ape’s Cott? that we read which snuffed up the wind, they were all genteelly dress’d in their way, with match Coats & other Apparel suitable there to, they had thin faces curiously painted in stripes of different Colours, and were decorated with silver Ornaments, such as curious nose jewels & other plates, they appear’d to look upon us with contempt, as their inferiors, O it is a great thing to be a Christian, to be like the great pattern, to pray for (?)