LABKAJ)OR JOURNAL 29 



visit lieutenant DaA'yes of the marines, wlio be- 

 longed to the Guernsey during both the A'oyages 

 that I sailed in her, and now conmiands here. He 

 presented nie with a New England whale-boat, 

 and shewed me two hams of a white bear,^ in brine, 

 intended as a compliment to the Governor, which 

 he and his people killed last winter, upon the ice 

 in the harbour; the weight of the animal, he as- 

 sured me, was a hundred and twenty stone of four- 

 teen pounds each. In the flight-time, "which com- 

 mences about the middle of April, and commonly 

 ends with the month of May, he said, they had 

 killed about fifteen hundred ducks, which ap- 

 peared probable enough, from the bags of feathers 

 he shewed me. 



Sun day, July 29, 1770. At day-light this morn- 

 ing, we sailed for Charles River, and brought along 

 with us a baitskiff belonging to Perkins and Cogh- 

 lan, that had been left at the fort last year. There 

 being Ijut little wind, I got into the wherry when 

 we drew near St. Peter's Islands, and landed upon 

 one of them, where I shot four eider ducks,- and 

 seven lords and ladies;'' the latter lieing in full 

 moult could not fly, Init they were very fat. From 

 thence we rowed to the outer point of Cam]) Is- 

 lands, where we caught many large cod-fish,' by 



1 Polar bear, Thalarctos mnritimus, now extirpated from Labrador 

 except in the most northern parts. 



' American eider, Snmttlrria drrssrri. The dreenland eider, S. rnnllissivin 

 horealU, breedn nortli of Huiiiilton Inlet a) the present day, as doew also the 

 KinK eider, .S. spectahilis. 



* The male and female Harlequin dii<k, 1 1 islrionicus hiatrionicuJt. 



* Gadun callarian. 



