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and the night being cold, and the Cabin very open, we often had to rise to mend our fire. 24 miles 16 Set of for the Mouth of Conowango, went 7 miles down the Eastside of Brokenstraw to the Allegeny River, the bottoms on the Creek was rich, and beautifully coated over with a luxuriant vegetation, and loaded with lofty Pines, Sugar trees, White Walnut, Buttonwood &;c, here we saw several Sugar Camps erected by the Indians, where they come in the Season to make Sugar, tho more than 20 miles from their Village, but we found when amongst them that they have plenty of good Canoes, so that the could with great facility convey their Kettles &;c for making Sugar, down the River and up this Creek, we passed by two or more Cabins Settlements as of white people as as we went down this Creek to the River, but saw none after we turned up the River to the mouth of Conowanga, where we arrived about noon, it is called 18 miles from this plac[e] to Cornplanter’s Village, and a very rough road, so that we agreed to stay here until morning, there being pretty plenty of pasture for our horses, and a good house for ourselves to Quarter in, though we had to find our own provision and sleep on the floor near the mouth