A 



JOURNAL 



OF 



TRANSACTIONS AND EVENTS 



ON THE 



COAST OF LABRADOR 



THE FIRST VOYAGE 



Sunday, March 30, 1770. Some previous com- 

 munications having passed on the subject, Lieu- 

 tenant Francis Lucas of the Royal Navy and I 

 went down to Bristol and on this day engaged to 

 enter into a partnership with ^lessrs. Thomas 

 Perkins and Jeremiah Coghlan, merchants of that 

 city, under the firm of Perkins, Coghlan, Cart- 

 wright, and Lucas, for the purpose of carrying on 

 various branches of business upon the coast of 

 Labrador; and particularly, of endeavoui'ing to 

 cultivate a friendly intercourse with the Esqui- 

 maux Indians/ wlio have always been accounted 

 the most savage race of people upon tlie wliole 

 continent of Amerir'a. They have n1 different 

 times committed several robberies and imii-ders on 



' He refers to the Eskimofl, not to the Indians. CarfwriKht froquonfly 

 unes the word Indian when he tneanfl Eskimo. This latter rare were in 

 his day often r-alled " Fishing Indians " to distinRuish them from the true 

 Indians, who were called " Hunting Indians." 



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