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(for the seals' oil,) and a fresh supply of provi- 

 sions. He delivered to me some letters from Eng- 

 land and Fogo. From the former place I received 

 the very afflicting information of the death of my 

 good friend Lord Granby; and from the latter I 

 was informed of the loss of my partner lieutenant 

 Lucas, who was supposed to have foundered at 

 sea, in our schooner Enterprise, on his passage 

 from Fogo to Oporto; for which place he sailed 

 the latter end of October last, with a cargo of dry 

 fish on freight. They also advised me, that our 

 schooner Nimrod was to be consigned to me with 

 a cargo of supplies from England ; and that a shal- 

 lop, intended as a present to Attuiock, was to be 

 immediately sent to me from Fogo. Tilsed and 

 his crew returned to Stage Cove at night to assist 

 in carrying on the work there. 



A very hot day. 



Tuesday^ July 2, 1771. At five o'clock this 

 morning, taking a couple of men with me in the 

 wherry, I went to Seal Island; where Hezekiah 

 Guy and company delivered to me two thousand 

 seven hundred and five gallons of seals' oil; thirty- 

 two fox, and four otter skins; one wolf and one 

 deer skin, with two bags of feathers; being part 

 of their winter's * voyage. I then made a visit 

 to the Indians who are encamped on Cape Island; 

 and my old friend Attuiock made me a present of 

 a beautiful ranger ^ skin. 



* A term used in this country, to express the whole of what any set 

 of men make, catch, or procure, in the course of a winter, or summer. 

 ^ Harbour seal, Phoca vitulina (xmcolor. 



