A continual Rain oblig’d us to stay there till the 13th. During our Stay, the Natives made several Feasts, to which we were always invited; and at length the Rain ceasing, we resolv’d to set out, notwithstanding all Monsieur _Cavelier_ the Priest’s Apprehensions, which we surmounted, and directed our Course towards the _N. E._ with two _Indians_, who were to conduct us only a small Way, and who accordingly soon left us, whatsoever Promises we could make them. They departed to return Home, promising they would come to us again. We encamp’d that Night on the Bank of a Rivulet. [Sidenote: _Bad Ways._] The 14th and 15th, we held on our Way, frequently meeting with Sloughs, which very much fatigued us, because we were oblig’d to unload our Horses for them to pass, and prevent their sticking in the Mire and fat Soil, whence we could not have drawn them out, and consequently we were fain to carry all our Luggage on our own Backs. Whilst we halted about Noon, that our Horses might graze, as was usually done by us, we discover’d our two _Assony Indians_ returning towards us, at which we were much rejoiced, because they had a better Notion than ourselves of the Way we were to go. We made them eat and smoke, and then set out again. The 16th, we came to a great River, which we pass’d as we had done the first, and after that, met with very bad Ways. [Sidenote: _Art to Kill Goats and Wild Fowl._] The 17th, one of our Company being indispos’d, we could not set out till Noon, and held on till the 21st, crossing several Sloughs and Rivers, and then one of our _Indians_ being out of Order, it oblig’d us to stay on the Bank of a River we had pass’d. The other _Indian_ seeing his comrade sick, went a Hunting, and brought a wild Goat; for there are many in that Country. The _Indians_ have the Art of dressing the Heads of those Creatures, which they put upon their own, and imitate them so exactly, that they can come very near to them, and then seldom fail of killing. The same Method they use for Turkeys and other wild Fowl, and so draw them close to themselves. [Sidenote: _Fine Meadows._] The 22d, our _Indian_ being somewhat recover’d we decamp’d and proceeded along a better Way and Pleasanter Country, than that we had left behind, and as we enquir’d the best we could of those our _Indians_, concerning the Neighbouring Nations and those we were going towards, among others they nam’d to us, that they call’d _Cappa_. M. _Cavelier_ told us, he remember’d he had heard his late Brother Monsieur _de la Sale_ name that Nation, and say he had seen it as he went from _Canada_ towards the _Missisipi_. This put us in Hopes, that we should succeed in our Discovery.