high banks all the way & most part of it a perpendicular Rock about 60 feet high.
16th.—a storm so that we could [not] stir.
17th.—The Wind continued very high, stayed here this day, set of[f] the Cattle with an escort of Souldiers and Indians.
18th.—Set Sail came to Oulame Thepy or Vermillion Creek a narrow Channel about Eight foot Water a large Harbour when in, about four o'Clock came to Notowacy Thepy a fine Creek running through a Meadow about Eighteen foot Water, this day came about seven Leagues;[1] here I met three Indians who informed me that the Deputys I sent from Fort Pitt had passed by their hunting Cabin Eight days agoe on their way to D'Troit in order to deliver the Messages I sent by them to the several Indian Nations.
19th.—Several Indians came down the Creek to our encampment and made us a present of dryed Meat, set of[f], came to the little Lake just as the Cattle set over from thence, set of[f] from here came to a Creek which runs through a marchy Meadow, here we encamped, came this day about six Leagues.[2]
20th.—Mr. Braam set of[f] to D'Troit with a Flag of
Truce and took with him Mr Gamblin a French Gentleman
an Inhabitant of D'Troit.[3] This day about One
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- ↑ Vermillion Creek or River retains its name. The river where the expedition encamped ("Notowacy Thepy") was probably that now known as the Huron River, in Erie County, Ohio. Rogers's Journal mentions these rivers without giving names.―Ed.
- ↑ Rogers names the lake here mentioned, as Sandusky. It is difficult to tell from this description whether or not the flotilla entered the inner Sandusky Bay. Probably the encampment for the nineteenth was on the site of the present city of Sandusky, at Mill or Pipe Creek.―Ed.
- ↑ Médard Gamelin was the son of a French surgeon, and nephew of that Sieur de la Jémerais who accompanied La Vérendrye on his Western explora-
