LABRADOR JOURNAL 69 



After speudiiig an agreeable hour with the In- 

 dians, I returned to tlie tilt on Eyre Island; but 

 was disappointed in linding nobody there: all the 

 firewood was nearly burnt up; and I was too lazy 

 to cut any more myself. Tlie weather being- ex- 

 ceedingly cold, and neither of the men returning, 

 I passed an uncomfortable, solitary night. The 

 wind forced so much drift in between the boards, 

 that my bed, and the whole floor of the tilt, were 

 soon coyered a foot deep with snow. 



A yery fine day, l)ut an extremely bad night. 



JVednes., Fchniarii 27, 1771. At one o'clock 

 this afternoon, Ned and ^lilmouth returned from 

 Seal Island, where they lay last night. They in- 

 formed me, that the ice w^as driyen off shore, to 

 the distance of some miles; and that a boat ar- 

 riyed last night from Chateau, with some people 

 belonging to Messrs. Noble and Pinson of Dart- 

 mouth, who carry on their business in Temple 

 Bay. In the eyening one of my people came from 

 the Lodge, and Ijrought me a letter h'om Mr. Ged, 

 who relieyed Lieutenant Dayyes in the command 

 of York Fort. 



Hard frost with low^ drift. 



Thursday, March 7, 1771. Nanny was so Ijad 

 to-day, that I was greatly alaniied. Tier face was 

 intensely red, her eyes had a fiery briglitness, and 

 she had such a quick succession of fainting-tits, 

 that each was of longer dui'ation lliaii the interyal 

 which preceded. Being destitule of eyery medi- 

 cine which Dr. l^rookes pi-escrib<'s in siicli cases, 

 I was entirely at a loss what to give lici-; but as 



