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up here in their kyacli:s/ and breakfasted with me ; 

 after which they went back, in order to bring up 

 the women and children. The skiff returned in 

 the evening, accompanied by the schooner's boat; 

 and both of them were laden with goods intended 

 for Indian trade. As soon as the goods were 

 landed, I sent both the boats back again. Attuiock 

 returned in one of them, to apologize for the ab- 

 sence of his wives; the weather being too wet for 

 them to come on shore. 



The carpenters finished the maid's cabin, and 

 all their other w^ork in the kitchen. Charles and 

 Ned visited the slips, and the latter killed a brace 

 of spruce-game; but poor Charles, who is a better 

 soldier than a marksman, returned like the Knight 

 of the Sorrowful Countenance; for, in shooting 

 at a bird, he had killed his dog. 



Saturday^ October 6, 1770. The carpenters be- 

 gan to erect a porch to the house door, and the 

 rest of the people were busy in assisting to unlade 

 the schooner. Attuiock brought his wives and 

 children up to-day; and they dined with me. 



Sunday, Octoher 7, 1770. I was engaged in wri- 

 ting letters to England all the forenoon ; after din- 

 ner I went on board the Enterprize, and returned 

 home at night. One of the people having care- 

 lessly left a bucket upon the deck yesterday, with 

 a gallon of rum in it, Mr. Lucas's goat drank al- 

 most the whole of the contents, and has continued 

 ever since in so complete a state of intoxication, 



* Skin-covered boats, the characteristic boat of the Eskimo, just as the 

 birch bark canoe is of the Indian. 



