LABRADOR JOURNAL 45 



acconunodation ot* Attuiock and his family: the 

 Lidians and 1 walked down to the place to view 

 the premises; of which I made them a present in 

 due form. 



Fridai/, October 20, 1770. Early in the morning 

 the gentlemen went off for Chateau, and I walked 

 home bv myself; the distance is twelve miles. I 

 got shots at an otter, and two seals, with my little 

 rifle; but killed none of them. Ned and the fur- 

 riers returned in the evening, having killed only 

 a ]")ied-duck.^ Tliey had tailed a trap on the land- 

 wash at tlie head of Niger Sound, which caught 

 me by the foot, as I was creeping to get a sliot at 

 the otter. Charles went the north walk ; he killed 

 a spruce-game, and found a rabbit " and a porcu- 

 pine in two of the snares on Hare Hill. 



Safiorlajj, October 27, 1770. After breakfast T 

 took Charles and the two furriers with me in the 

 wherry, and rowed down to Furriers' Cove; where 

 we landed, and proceeded to the north walk, with 

 an intention of returning the same way. AMien 

 we got upon North Head, I discovered an old stag, 

 with a hind and her calf, upon Lyon Neck. I then 

 sent the furriers to lie off Salt Point in the wlierry, 

 in case the deer should take the watci-; while 

 Charles and I crossed at the head oL' the Cove, to 



'CartwTiKht Bpoaks sevoral timoa of a " piod-duck " and it is possihlc 

 that ho refpra to the Labrador dnrk, Camptorhynrlmn InhrndoriuK, which 

 was also known as tho " piod duck." Althoiinh it wa« conunon in Cart- 

 wripht's day it has horn pxtinct sinco about 1874. 



' Labrador varying harr-, Lrjnm mritriratins. This hare is ypllowish- 

 brown to dniF) in summor, and piirf white in winter. The Labrador 

 polar hare, lA:pu« lahrudoriwi, uIho oucurn there. 



