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dress A'ictuals fast enough for them. They be- 

 haved very well however, and returned, to all 

 appearance, contented with their traffic and 

 entertainment. I skimied and spread the 

 otter. 



Thursday, June 4, 1772. At noon I went down 

 the river in the old punt, and tailed the trap which 

 the Indians had brought up, on Barred Island, 

 where it was before. Meeting the sealers, who 

 were coming up with herring nets, and a tierce of 

 salt, I returned with them; and with their assist- 

 ance buried m.y late old servant, Charles Atkinson. 

 Thev afterwards returned home, and in the eve- 

 ning I tilled a little more of the lower garden, and 

 likewise took up the salmon-net which I hung up 

 to dry. 



Monday, June 8, 1772. Early in the morning, 

 taking the marine with me in the old punt, and 

 a few trading goods, I intended going down to the 

 Indians. On our way we looked at the traps, and 

 in one, which was tailed in a deer-path on Salt 

 Point, we found a 1}tix.^ 



Friday, June 12, 1772. In the afternoon I took 

 up ))oth the nets, and put them out afresh below 

 the deeps, and had two slinks in them. AMiik' we 

 were employed in this business, a skiff, belonging 

 to Noble and Pinson, arrived and took possession 

 of the river; under a pretence of having a right 

 so to do, by virtue of the Acts of Pai-liament rela- 

 tive to Newfoundland. 



Mondaif, Jinir /.'7, 1772. As Noble nnd Piiison\s 



' Canada lynx, Lynx cancuiensis. 



