tered the latter with a very strong head wind which compelled us to put ashore as soon as we found a suitable place to unload and haul up the canoes. The French River enters the Lake by a great number of branches separated by high rocky Islands. The Lake appears like an Ocean no land to be seen but that of the side we are upon and a few petty Islands belonging thereto about the mouths of the French River are a few Rocky shoals where the natives find a variety of water fowl's eggs in the Season; baskets full of which they brought to our tents for sale, and tried all the ways they could devise to make us give them Rum, but finding us staunch in our refusal offered to appease the wind if the could be indulged with something to drink, and taking no more effect than the rest of their loguick, they departed much disatisfied, vowing they would conjure and cause the wind to blow with increased violence from the same quarter for eight days.

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