14 CAPTAIN" CART WRIGHT'S 



the property and persons of the adventurers in 

 Labrador. Three years ago, they murdered three 

 servants at Cape Charles, who belonged to * Mr. 

 Nicholas Darby, an adventurer from Bristol. This 

 occasioned him to abandon that place, and has 

 ever since interrupted all commerce between that 

 nation and the British. That affair has also de- 

 terred every other adventurer from extending his 

 business to the northward of Chateau Bay, where 

 Government, near five years ago, erected a block- 

 house in a small Fort, which is garrisoned by an 

 officer and twenty men from the Governor of New- 

 foundland's ship. A Sloop of War is also sta- 

 tioned there during the Summer, not only to pro- 

 tect the merchants and their people from the In- 

 dians, but also to prevent encroachments from 

 the French, who carry on very extensive fisheries 

 in all the northern harbours of Newfoundland. 



In consequence of our partnership it was re- 

 solved, that we should purchase from Messrs. Per- 

 kins and Coghlan (who are in the Newfoundland 

 trade) a schooner of eighty tons, then lying in the 

 harbour of Poole; that Mr. Lucas should have the 

 command of that vessel; and that I should reside 

 in Labrador, to direct and manage all our concerns 

 on shore. 



In the beginning of May I returned to Bristol 

 in expectation of going out to Labrador in the 

 schooner which we had agreed for with Messrs. 

 Perkins and Coghlan, but, by some extraordi- 



* Father to the since much celebrated Mrs. Robinson.^ 



* A famous actress who wrote poems and novels under the pen name of 

 Perdita. 



