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doater, and nineteen fox skins; twenty-one spare 

 fox brnslies; twelve deer, four otter, and two mar- 

 ten skins; one wolf, one wolvering, and one black- 

 bear skin. xVt night the skilf eanie n\) with a let- 

 ter. We found a wolvering to-day in one of the 

 traps, which was tailed some time since in AVat- 

 son Brook, but he ^vas tainted. Few salmon 

 going. 



Suudai/, Amju.st 4, 1771. At eight this morn- 

 ing, being accompanied by Shuglawina, we got 

 under weigh [in the Nimrod] and sailed for Fogo; 

 but immediately got aground on the bar between 

 White Fox and Little Island: we lay there an 

 hour, then got otf ])y the help of a warp, and went 

 to sea. There being but little wind all day, we 

 got no farther than the back of Belle Isle, and 

 were beating in the mouth of the straits all 

 night. 



Mondai), August 5, 1771. We were about foiu' 

 leagues from Groais Island at sun-set, when we 

 saw a snow ^ standing in for Croque. During a 

 calm in the afternoon, Shuglawina went off in his 

 kyack in pursuit of a penguin ; - he presently came 

 within a proper distance of the bird, and struck 

 his dai't into it; ])ut, as the weapon did not enter 

 a mortal part, the penguin swam and dived so 



• A Bailing vessel, whoHo rip; Is now obaolple. The snow had two larpe 

 maflts, and a third small ma.st which carried a trysail just abaft of the 

 mainmast. 



'Great auk or Kare-fowl, Plnntus impcnnis, exiinet since about 1850. 

 This interest inn l»ird Wius fulled jxTifjuin by tli<' t-aiTuT voyagers, a name 

 subsequently use<l to dej^ignatc an entirely different Kro'ii) of birds confined 

 to the southern ocean, but resembling the great auk in bcins flightless. 



