appeared pleased with the charge assigned him,

17th.

Set out with our Indian
guide, who could not speak or understand
English that we know, and after riding about
four miles in which we crossed the Conewango,
we had a rough mountainous country, the road
being better calculated for an Indian path, than
riding on horse back, being much obstructed by
wind-fallen Timber, and the young growth being*
* so thick that if we were two sods
apart we would have to call out to
each other, in fear of being lost.

When we reached the river we stopped to
let out horses eat grass, there being plenty of it
on some of the bottoms, which was a pleasing
sight, and tended to remove some fears respecting
the fare of our horses, when we got among the
Indians, While here a number of Indians
came by in canoes, who stopped to see us,
shook hands with us and looked pleasant.

One man came down from the mountain
with a large turkey on his back, which he had
just shot, and we thought it would have weighed
more than twenty pounds, It conveyed the
idea that small game was plenty, among them
and maybe we would come in for a share,

One of the canoes had a quantity of fine
fish, but we found when among them that a
turkey, or any other small came was very seldom
taken: it was rare to see a squirrel in the wilder-
ness. We saw some pheasants but no partridges.