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obliged to run tlirougii Raft Tickle into a cove, 

 where we hauled up our boat; killed a pair of 

 eider ducks, and winged a black-duck, but lost it. 

 In the evening the squall abating, we set off, and 

 got home by ten at night; in the way I killed a 

 seal with goose shot, but it sunk. Ned and Haines 

 were come from Chateau, but had brought only 

 twelve ducks. They had begun to build the 

 salmoii-house. Attuiock sent me a present of his 

 old kyack. Clear weather. 



Saturday^ Jiuie 1, 1771. I turned the people 

 out at four o'clock, and finding that the work at the 

 salmonhouse was not well executed, I made them 

 pull it down and begin afresh. The boatsmaster 

 came up and informed me, that he had brought 

 the shallop into the river. Milmouth and Bettres 

 went to Eyre Island with traps ; where they killed 

 a duck and a tinker,^ and gathered thirty-three 

 eggs. Two of the Indians came up, and brought 

 me a duck and a few eggs. The instant I got home 

 I sat down to write letters to Fogo and England, 

 and continued at that work all day. 



Sunday, June 2, 1771. I continued writing all 

 the last night, and until noon to-day; when, hav- 

 ing finished, the shallop immediately sailed for 

 Fogo. I went to bed at half after two in the after- 

 noon, not a little fatigued. 



Mo7iday, June 3, 1771. At four o'clock all 

 hands were at work on the salmonhouse, except 

 two; at the same time I sent down the river for 

 the skiff and punt, which were left in Furriers 



^ Still called " tinker," the razor-billed auk, Alca torda. 



