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Cove: they returned at eight, when Mihiiouth 

 went to Niger Sound, shifted the trap, and killed 

 a shell-bird and a bottle-nosed diver/ 



Thursday, June 6, 1771. At day-Hght I began 

 to prepare for a cruise; and at seven o'clock, 

 taking Charles and Bettres with me, I sailed for 

 St. Lewis's Bay: we had three otters in the traps, 

 tailed three more, shot three ducks, and gathered 

 seventeen eggs. We passed the night in Mary 

 Harbour. 



Friday, J une 7, 1771. At noon w^e sailed up the 

 bay, got to the head of it at night, and there found 

 a large river, with plenty of good timber on the 

 north side of it. We landed at the mouth of a 

 small brook, where there were some old Nescau- 

 pick whigwhams, and erected a tilt for ourselves; 

 but had not a very pleasant night, as it snowed 

 hard the whole time. I named the river, the Col- 

 leroon; from a large river in the East Lidies of 

 the same apjoellation. 



Saturday, J tine 8, 1771. We spent the morning 

 in taking off some rinds to cover our tilt, and in 

 skinning the otters. Li the afternoon we went 

 about two miles higher up the river, which ap- 

 peared very likely to produce plenty of salmon, 

 but difficult and expensive to fish; being In-oad, 

 shoal, and rapid. On examination of the timber 

 we found a great number of white spruce trees, 

 which were tall, clear, and straight; fi-om six, to 



' Surf Bcoter or Rkunk-head cool, Oidcniin jHr^picilUiln. 'Ilic white- 

 winj^ed scoter, 0. der/Inn/li wa« and ia still known on the Labrador coast 

 ua the " brass-wing diver." 



