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brother lieariug of Mrs. ISelby's accident, had also 

 brought from Chateau, ]\Ir. John Williams, a sur- 

 geon's mate, belonging to the Antelope, who 

 chanced to be there. Mr. Dixon was with him, but 

 he had left the Ranger at Seal Island, under the 

 care of ^Ir. Langnian, until he should discover the 

 place of my abode. We returned home to break- 

 fast, and afterwards went down to South Head 

 a shooting; where my brother killed a brace of 

 spruce-game,^ and I, a curlew.^ In the mean time 

 he sent the whale-boat to Seal Island, to order the 

 schooner up the river. 



[xVfter several days passed pleasantly with his 

 brother in shooting ducks and in hunting caribou 

 and foxes, the Captain sailed for Chateau and 

 then going north, sailed up Gilbert's River, as far 

 as the peninsula called Olivestone.] 



Fridajj, August 24, 1770. Mr. Langman went 

 on shore at Olivestone to roast a haunch of veni- 

 son, and bake a venison pasty; just as they were 

 ready, the woods caught fire, and burnt with great 

 fury, which forced him and his assistants to make 

 a preci])itate retreat: though he saved the venison 

 and imi>lements of cookery; but a boat's sail and 

 a few other things were considerably injured by 

 the accident. 



Su}idaf/, Aufjust 2fJ, 1770. The scliooner got 

 under sail at day-light, and ]>rof'eeded up the river. 



' Hudsonian spnifP jctousp, Canachilrs rnnndnisis. 



* Eflkimo nirlow, Xtinu-nius linrralis, fnniierly ahiiiiflant, and one of the 

 moflt intprcsting and fharartoristif l)irdH of tlio Labrador coa.'^t, increaa- 

 inctv raro siriro IROO, nf)w almost extinct. TIuh is the " dough-bird " of 

 the New England coast. 



