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in the inside of it. The deer then went off for 

 Lyon Neck; and they returned home. They also 

 said, that a wolf had been in one of the lower traps, 

 but had gotten out again. 



Thursday, January 10, 1771. Taking Charles, 

 Ned, Mihnouth, and the greyhound with us, Attui- 

 ock and I went in quest of the deer. Judging that 

 they would be found near Cutter Harbour, we went 

 up the sawyers' path b}^ Watson Pond, and 

 crossed at the foot of Belvoir Hill to the head of 

 Atkinson Pond; but not meeting with their slot 

 there, we walked down the lake to Lyon Neck; 

 where the Indian left us and returned home. Soon 

 after, we came upon the slot of the deer, and fol- 

 lowed them to the top of Lyon Head; at which 

 place, the greyhound was so eager to get loose, 

 that we judged they must have been feeding there 

 very lately: night now overtaking us, we retired 

 a little way under the side of a hill; made a good 

 fire, and, considering the weather was extremely 

 cold, and we lay in the open air, on the Labrador 

 coast, we passed a tolerably comfortable night. 



Friday, January 11, 1771, The frost was so 

 immoderately severe this morning, that we did not 

 leave the fire before the sun was up, we then pro- 

 ceeded along the North East side until we got to 

 the extreme point of the hill, that we might get 

 to leeward of the deer. At nine o'clock we dis- 

 covered them feeding by the side of a bleak hill, 

 not far from where we slept: we approached as 

 near to them as the situation would permit, and 

 there lay watching, in expectation that they would 



