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many rubbing places. On the north side was an- 

 other fresh whigwham. We observed in the water 

 many geese ^ and seals. 



Friday, August 31, 1770. We sailed at day-light 

 and anchored again off the east-end of Cartwright 

 Island, where all the shooters landed and stationed 

 themselves across the middle of it; each placing 

 himself within proper distance of his next neigh- 

 bour. After sending the two boats to lie off differ- 

 ent points, we dispatched a few of the sailors into 

 the woods with the hounds. In the afternoon, a 

 young hind passed within shot of my brother, but 

 he did not see her. An hour after, I saw her again, 

 standing up to her belly in a pond, which was 

 above a mile below me; there I got within distance 

 and killed her. In the course of the day I shot 

 three curlews, three grouse," and an auntsary;^ 

 the rest of the party killed four grouse, one cur- 

 lew, one auntsary, and a whabby.^ 



Tuesday, Septemher 4, 1770. We arrived at the 

 mouth of the river [Charles] at four o'clock this 

 morning, and there anchored. We then landed on 

 South Head, and met with the track of a very large 



* Canada goose, Branta canadensis. 



2 By " grouse " Cartwright means the willow ptarmigan, Lagopus 

 lagopus. By " ptharmakin, " or ptarmigan, he means the rock ptarmigan, 

 Lagopus rupestris, which is found in Labrador throughout the barren, 

 treeless regions, except in the extreme north, where it is replaced by Rein- 

 hardt's ptarmigan, Lagopus rupestris reinhardi. Cartwright was familiar 

 with the red grouse of Scotland, Lagopus scolicus, a species of ptarmigan, 

 which does not turn white in winter, as well as with the ptarmigan of that 

  country, Lagopus mutus, which puts on a winter plumage of white. 



» Greater Yellow-legs, Tolanus melanoleucas. The name auntsary is 

 still used in Labrador. 



* Red-throated loon, Gavia stellata. 



