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visit, and at the same time to bring theii- whale- 

 bone and skins to trade with me. 



In my way home I called at Seal Island, where 

 I received six hundred and twentv-live seal-skins 

 from Guy and company. I then proceeded to the 

 stage, where I gave some directions, and got home 

 by ten at night, accompanied by two Indian men 

 in their kyacks. Milmouth had shifted the net, 

 and put it out again. 



The weather was very fine to-day. 



Sunday, July 7, 1771. At one o'clock this after- 

 noon, our bait-skiff full of Indians, attended by 

 several others in their kyacks, came here; having 

 left their shallop in the river below. They 

 brought a small quantity of whalebone and a few 

 skins, which I purchased with some trifling arti- 

 cles. There were in the whole, thirty-two people, 

 of both sexes and of all ages. Nine salmon were 

 boiled for them, and, although the fish were fifteen 

 pounds weight each, on an average, they ate the 

 whole at a meal. T can eat pretty well myself; 

 ))ut my perfoi'mances in that way are not worth 

 recording in the history of men of such superior 

 talents. They all returned in the evening except 

 Shuglawina, his daughter, Attuiock and Ickon- 

 gorjue. 



There was excellent fishiuc; todav, and had 

 there been but one fleet of good nets in the water, 

 we could have killed ten tierces. 



Tuesday, July !f, 1771. Early this morning I 

 went to Cape Tharles, and there pitched my tent 

 upon the eontinont, flii'crtly opposite the Indian 



