Pointe Fortune.

May 29^th[.] S[l]ept at the chute a Blondeau[.] 30^th[.] [W]alked up the Long-soult which the men call three leagues long[.] In it they made the portages and we slept two nights at the head of the third of these portages where I saw the first cross or grave mark[.] I am told it is that of a young Christian Indian who was drown'd in attempting to run the Rapid in his canoe.

The reason of our staying two nights at this place was to wait the arrival of our associate brigade conducted by an old guide named Denis who we find broke one of his Canoes and is gone back to the village of the Lake of the two mountains either to get another or materials to repair the broken one[.] The guides orders being to wait for this associate Brigade we are likely to lose much time on the road.

June 1^st[.] We left our campment at the head of the long soult at 3 P.M. A Leagues farther we came opposite to a very beautiful Mountain on the north shore of the Ottawa[.] The men tell me it is part of a Ridge of Mountains that extends along from Temes camagne to Tadosac perhaps to the Labrador Coast[.] As the guides who shoot the Canoes down the long soult and Carrillon Rapids have their huts erected. The fare to a guide is five Dollars

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