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for my use, as I had resolved to tix my residence 

 here. Two men were left on shore at night to 

 take care of them, and the live stock; for I had 

 brought from Fogo, a couple of goats and a few 

 X)oultry. As none of those peoi)le, who were em- 

 ployed in the boats, had ever been in this part 

 of the world before, they were greatly terrified 

 with the continual crying of the loons,^ believing 

 them to be Indians; and one man even swore, that 

 he saw two upon the shore. 



[For several days after this Capt. Cartwright 

 was busy in directing the landing of his goods, 

 the repairing of old houses and in building anew. 

 Yet he found time for shooting and exploration.] 



Saturday, August 4, 1770. I set the carpenters 

 to work on the intended dwellinghouse, which is 

 thirtv-seven feet bv fourteen, with orders to divide 

 it into three equal parts; the south apartment to 

 be the kitchen, the centre a dining-room, and the 

 north to be sub-divided longit\ulinally into two 

 ])ed-rooms; with a loft for goods over the whole. 

 The mason began a chimney in one of the bed- 

 rooms, with the bricks and lime, which T ])rought 

 out for that purpose. 



Mo)i(laii, August 6, 1770. T walked to the top 

 of a hill, which lies a mile and a half East of this 

 ])lace, and found part of it to be barren, and the 

 rest covered with crabbed spruce-bushes,^ from 



' Gfvria immer. 



* Blark Rprupc, Pirra mnrinnn : white spnirp, P. rnnn'imKil't : (and, in 

 Homp plar>fs in southern linhrndnr, red spnifo, P. nihrn) on this roast 

 indcwi buwhes, W)mPtirnoH not more than a foot high, yot ofton fifty yoarfl 

 old, lus I havf drtrTiiiinod liv roiinlinc th«' rinirs, Vuh; " A Labrador 

 Spring." Dunu EhIch & Co., Boston, 1010, pp. 200-219. 



