ᏙᏓᏆᏓ ᏓᏂᎭᏲᎲ ᎤᎾᎵᏗᎩᏛ, ᎠᎹ ᏕᎨᏴ, ᏚᏙᎥ ᏍᏔᏯ ᎢᏗᎦᏪᏍᏗ ᏫᏥᎢᏍᏔᏯ ᏗᏍᏇᎵᏰᏗ, ᎤᏒᎯ ᏱᏄᎵᏍᏔᎾ ᎠᏧᏍᏛ ᎾᎥᏂ ᎤᏬᏠ ᏍᎦᏰᎬᏍᏔ ᏕᎪᏪᎵᏍᎪ ᎧᏃᎮᏍᎩ, ᏍᏓᏯ ᎠᏍᎩᎾᏗᏍᎪ ᎤᏄᎸᎲᏍᎬ ᏧᏍᏇᎵᏰᏗ ᏚᏙᎥ ᎠᎹ ᏕᎨᏴ.
All day they searched the coves for fugitives, going up and down the many convoluted rivers and branches and creeks with names that were hard to pronounce and so impossibly resistant to spelling that the lieutenant would sit by his candle flame at night writing his reports and cursing loudly each time it became necessary to render one of the Indian watercourses into a phonetic approximation of English.