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panioon and I vent and viewed the great fall of the river



St. Lawrence at N
village several da)
fall at first made n
almost leapt out of
I had the couragre
the shortest road
cutting down a tre
it into a Pettiaug



the Objio an(
diffitulty, I
rived safe an
me in good
  " I This jol
excite fly cu
told me that
red men of t!



I the



went
tong r



urney
a 0
riosity
the an
hie nor



iagara, which was distant from the
rs' journey. The view of this great
ay hair stand on end, and my heart
hits place; hut afterwards before I left,
to walk under it. Next day we took
to Ohio, and my companion and I
!e on the bank of the river, we formed
re, which served to conduct me down
Mississippi, after which, with much
up our small river; and at length ar-
ny relations, who were rejoiced to see



instead of satisfying only served to
* Our old men for several years, had
icient speech informed them that the
th came oriainally much hioher and
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much farther than the source of the river Missouri
as I had longed to see, with my own eyes, the
whence our first fathers came, I took my precautio
my journey westwards. Having provided a small
tity of corn, I proceeded up along the eastern bank
river Missouri. till I came to the Ohio. I went UD



the bank
journey,
carried i
geux, or
ed over t
buffaloes



of this
that I
into the
raft of
lhe rive
in the



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n
q
C
a



last river about the fourth part ota a
miaht be able to cross it without t
Mississippi. There I formed a X
canes, by the assistance of which I
r; and next day meeting with a he
>meadow.s4 I killed a fat one. and



from it the fillets, the bunch, anil
I arrived among the Tamaroax
of Illinois, where I rested severt
ed northwards to the month of
ter it enters the great river runs
without intermixing% its muddy
stream of the other. Having ci
went up the Missouri along its
several days' journey I arrived



' and
land
Is for
uan-
if the
long
]ay's
)eing
Cau-
pass-
rd of
took



[ the tongue. Soon after
¢, a village of the nation
dI days and then proceed-
the Missouri, which af-
; for a considerable time
waters with the clear
'ossed the Mississippi, I
northern bank, and after
at the nation of the Mise



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