Having, Therefore,
Scarcely Any Provisions, We Purchased Eight Small Fat Dogs:
A Food To Which We Were Compelled To Have Recourse, As The Indians Were
Very Unwilling To Sell Us Any Of Their Good Fish, Which They Reserved
For The Market Below.
Fortunately, however, habit had completely
overcome the repugnance which we felt at first at eating this animal,
and the dog, if not a favorite dish, was always an acceptable one.
The meridian altitude of to-day gave 45'0 42' 57.3" north as the latitude
of our camp.
"On the beach, near the Indian huts, we observed two canoes of a
different shape and size from any which we had hitherto seen.
One of these we got by giving our smallest canoe a hatchet,
and a few trinkets to the owner, who said he had obtained it
from a white man below the falls in exchange for a horse.
These canoes were very beautifully made: wide in the middle,
and tapering towards each end, with curious figures carved on the bow.
They were thin, but, being strengthened by crossbars about
an inch in diameter, tied with strong pieces of bark through
holes in the sides, were able to bear very heavy burdens,
and seemed calculated to live in the roughest water."
At this point the officers of the expedition observed signs of uneasiness
in the two friendly Indian chiefs who had thus far accompanied them.
They also heard rumors that the warlike Indians below them were meditating
an attack as the party went down.
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