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cargo of goods to take home with hhn; aud deter- 

 mined that he should go to the northward next 

 smnmer, to trade w^th the whaling tribes of his 

 nation; for I understand that the southern Li- 

 dians never kill any whales/ but either purchase 

 whalebone from the northern tribes, or cut it out 

 of a dead whale when they chance to meet with 

 one, which often happens. 



The Lidians being all assembled now% and the 

 wind fair, the whole fleet sailed to-day for their 

 respective settlements; and w^e parted on the 

 most friendly terms. 



Tuesday, September 38, 1773. Being in a con- 

 tinual hurry of business and much perplexity, by 

 reason of my distressed situation, I have ne- 

 glected to keep a regular journal. 



This morning I took a walk upon the hills to 

 the w^estward, and killed seven brace of grouse.- 

 These birds are exactly the same with those of 

 the same name in Europe, save only in the colour 

 of their feathers, which are speckled with white 

 in summr'7% and perfectly white in winter, (four- 



' There are five species of large whales regularly found on the Labrador 

 coast at the present time besides several smaller whales or porpoises. 

 The five large whales are: siilpliiir-boltom, Balnmnptern miisniln.s; fin- 

 bark, B. phy.'induH ; pike-headed, li. nculoroMraln ; polku^k, B. horculis 

 hump-baeked, Megaplera nodosa. The southorn right whale, Ralfwna 

 glncialis, is now extirpated in that region owing to the efforts of the Basque 

 fishermen from the Ifith to the end of the ISth nenturi(>s. It wjw prnbubly 

 rare in Cartwright's time, although eommon ejirlier. The sjx'nn whale, 

 Phyneln mnrmnphdluH, is a more southern speeies, but ocrasionally wan- 

 ders to the Labrador coa.st. 



' Willf)W ptarmigan, Lurio/nm Idfjnpv/^, also ff)und in Europe jind Asia. 

 The red grouse of Gniat Britain, L(mo[)iui Scolican, docs not turn whitu 

 in winter. 



