LABRADOR JOURNAL 107 



Wediies., Jidij 1, 1772. We sailed for Camp 

 Islands earlv this moriiiiii>', where we arrived in 

 a short space of time. We found there, seventeen 

 tents and nine shaHops. I pitched my tent, and 

 carried on a very brisk trade during the whole 

 of the da3\ In the evening, two fresh boats ar- 

 rived from the northward, one of which was a 

 whaling-boat, and had a good deal of bone in her. 

 At sun-set, the Indians amused themselves with 

 playing at ball; this amusement consisted only 

 in tossing the ball at pleasure from one to another, 

 each striving who should get it; but I soon per- 

 ceived they were very bad catchers. I taught 

 them the sports of threading-the-needle, and leap- 

 frog; the latter of which diverted them much, as 

 it did me likewise: for as thev liad no idea of 

 springing, and the women playing as well as the 

 men, they were continually tumbling over each 

 other in glorious confusion; but as the women 

 wore breeches, it was of very little consequence 

 on which end they fell; their heads, or their heels. 

 They had likewise a game much resembling that 

 of threading-the-needle; but instead of the last 

 couple turning hands over head, the leader ran 

 round, till they were all wound u[) in a circle; 

 when pulling and hauling different ways, they 

 tumbled over each other, and 1lius linished their 

 sport. One of them having a veiy bad cold, which 

 I understand is a prevalent disorder amongst 

 them, T bled him. 



Friday, Jidy 5, 1772. Two shallops went off 

 this morning for Chateau. T saw great plenty of 



