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found that they were much heavier than ours, and did



[lot kilt at so great
thou ght of nothing
with that design I



joined mys
coast, with
b
river, Whi(
sun-setting
low travell
nights very



elt to tho
whom I
ch bends
*,  5\Vi her
ers where



z shor



a distance. Afte
but proceeding on
let the red menl
se who lived mor
travelled along th
directly betwixt
i I arrived at the
e I found the days



up every thought of contin.
me that the land extended



Ivised by the



.1~
L
£



and the sun-setting; after
and at length was cut by t
south. One of them added
knew a very old nman who
fore it was cut away by the
the great water was low, I
those parts. Finding it til
ceed much farther on accoi
mate and the want of game
by which I had set out ; ani
westward to two days' jo
would not have employed
account of my frequent del
returned to my relations a1rr
   " The remarkable diffei
Natchez including in that i
as brethren, and the other



0      0
uing myjourn
a lonx way be
which it ra
he great wata
that when h
had seen tha
e great water
-nany rocks
  .'-



r the expedition, I
1 my journey, and



return homne,
e westwxard 011
e coast of the g
the north and
village of my
very long and



and
tke
rceat
tile
fel-
the



old men to give
'ey. rhey told
4ween the north
   .3. .1



,n cired
.r from i
e was y(
t distant
, and th
still app



Ily west
aorth to
)ung, he
land be-
at when
eared in



eretore impracticable to pro-
aLnt of the severity of the cli-
^, I returned by the same route
id reducing mywhole travels
urney, I compute that they
me thirty-six moons : but on



ays it



0/



i,



was five years b



efore 1



roncr the Yazons4'
'efice I observed between the
nime the nutions wthom-i thev
people of Lotusiztna, ma.-1de mCe.



I   S



extremely desirous of knownig
ginally canle. We had not tI
tion which xve have since rece



discoveries of M. .
Russian empire.
put the keeper of t
ing succeeded in tI
told him that from
tween the Natchez



De Lisle
I therefore
he temple



whence



1
pi



in
,a
in



both of themri. or



en that fal,
.vredi fromn tI
1 the eastei
Ip oled hn.ys(
a good hun.,



, ti
ie
'1)
eIf
011



tnI

Jib,



I
I
I)



nat without much difficulty
the little resemblance I obse
and the neighbouring tribes,



I



i



[)H to rhn I,
vels and
t of the
( day to
tnd hav-
; I then
rved be-
I was of



t



I vas



0     0
uing myjourney, They told
a Ionz wav between the north



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