LABRADOR eJOURNAL 79 



all day. in the evening the river broke up as far 

 as Rabbit Island; having been entirely frozen 

 twenty-seven weeks and three days. 



A very warm day. 



Tuesday, Maij 21, 1771. The first green leaf ap- 

 peared to-day, which was a currant.^ 



Monday, May 27, 1771. I killed a gull" with 

 my little rifle, and caught five large trouts with 

 baits. Milmouth returned at night, and brought 

 a goose. Charles was at work in the lower garden. 



Wednes., May 29, 1771. At day-light I sent 

 most of the peojole down to the shallop, and went 

 myself with two hands into St. Lewis's Bay. We 

 tailed one trap for an otter in Cutter Harbour; 

 then Avent into Mary Harbour, where we tailed 

 two more. At the head of this place we found a 

 very fine salmon river, which precipitates over 

 a flat rock, extending across the mouth of it, and 

 forms a most beautiful cascade. Near this spot 

 was a mountaineer whigwham of last year, on 

 which we spread our sails, and slept in it. I killed 

 a seal and a spruce-game with my rifle, but lost 

 the former. 



It snowed and hailed all day and night. 



Fridaj/, May 31, 1771. Wo ]ii"oceede(l lo "Ryre 

 Island, where we found a duck in a trap: l)('ing 

 caught there by a hard squall of wind, we were 



• Rihes Iriste or R. prostrahim. On May 24, 1000, at EBquimaux Point, 

 I found the currants just boKiniiinK to opon thoir l(>af-bu(lH. 



* The most common larijc jrull on the l>abr;ifl()r coa-st is the herring? 

 gull, Imtiik ar(icTtlahis. Tlie preat blafk-l jacked null, L. marinus and the 

 glaucous KuU or biirKoniasfer, />. hyptrhorruH, are ulso conmion. The 

 kittiwakc, Rinm trvl(u-tijla, is an abundant Bmall gull. 



