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arm he was sent to explore, which he judged to ex- 

 tend into the eastward about eight miles ; in it is a 

 good anchoring-place, wood, fresh water, wild fowl, 

 and fish. At nine o'clock I set out to explore the 

 other inlet, or the one next the sea ; and ordered 

 Mr. Gilbert, the master, to go and examine the pas- 

 sage out to sea, while those on board were getting 

 every thing in readiness to depart. I proceeded up 

 the inlet till five o'clock in the afternoon, when bad 

 weather obliged me to return, before I had seen the 

 end of it. As this inlet lay nearly parallel with the 

 sea-coast, I was of opinion that it might communicate 

 with Doubtful Harbour, or some other inlet to the 

 northward ; appearances were, however, against this 

 opinion, and the bad weather hindered me from 

 determining the point, although a few hours would 

 have done it : I was about ten miles up, and thought 

 I saw the end of it : I found on the north side three 

 coves, in which, as also on the south side, between 

 the main and the isles that lie about four miles up 

 the inlet, is good anchorage, wood, water, and what 

 else can be expected, such as fish and wild fowl ; of 

 the latter we killed, in this excursion, three dozen. 

 After a very hard row, against both wind and rain, 

 we got on board about nine o'clock at night, without 

 a dry thread on our backs. 



This bad weather continued no longer than till the 

 next morning, when it became fair, and the sky 

 cleared up ; but as we had not wind to carry us to 

 sea, we made up two shooting parties ; myself, ac- 

 companied by the two Mr. Forsters and some others, 

 went to the arm I w T as in the day before ; and the 

 other party to the coves and isles Mr. Gilbert had 

 discovered, when he was out, and where he found 

 many wild fowl. We had a pleasant day, and the 

 evening brought us all on board ; myself and party 

 met with good sport ; but the other party found 

 little. 



All the forenoon of the 10th, we had strong gales 



