They sometimes had a change in their fare, by procuring a few ducks and other water-fowl, which resort in great abundance to the marshes, by which they were surrounded.
_July 2_ .-- The canoe, which was ordered to be built for our use, was finished.

As it was constructed after the manner, described by Hearne, and several of the American travellers, a detail of the process will be unnecessary.

Its extreme length was thirty two feet six inches, including the bow and stern pieces, its greatest breadth was four feet ten inches, but it was only two feet nine inches forward where the bowman sat, and two feet four inches behind where the steersman was placed; and its depth was one foot eleven and a quarter inches.

There were seventy-three hoops of thin cedar, and a layer of slender laths of the same wood within the frame.

These feeble vessels of bark will carry twenty-five pieces of goods, each weighing ninety pounds, exclusive of the necessary provision and baggage for the crew of five or six men, amounting in the whole to about three thousand three hundred pounds' weight.