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pair uf pied-birds,^ which afforded us an excellent 

 supper, ur we must hare fasted. 



Sidtihtij, October 10, 1773. Li the morning I got 

 some things into the boat and went up to the 

 Lodge, where I found all well, except that my 

 maid-servant had run away with John Temple- 

 ton, (Noble and Pinson's head-man) and that the' 

 Indian man (my slave girl's father) was dead, 

 and had left me a legacy of two wives and three 

 children. This man sailed in a bait-skiff (wdiich 

 was the price of his daughter) along with the rest 

 of his countrymen; but meeting with a severe gale 

 of wind, he soon after parted from them, lost his 

 kyack, and was near losing himself and all his 

 family. This disaster caused him to return, and 

 to beg I would permit hun to winter near my seal- 

 hig-post. I foresaw that great inconvenience and 

 expense would be the consequence of permitting 

 him to become so near a neighbour; but as I was 

 well aware that they must all perish if I refused, 

 humanity would not suffer me to give him a 

 denial. This was the first night I slept at home 

 since my arrival upon the coast, and my bed w^as 

 now laid upon the floor; but even that w^as luxury, 

 having seldom had my clothes off these six weeks 

 past, and constantly slept before the fire. 



Monday, November 7, 1773. The brig not being 

 yet returned from Quel)ec, and the season so far 

 advanced, this day we went to short allowance for 



' See note on pipd-duck. It is possihlc he refers hero to tJie oyster - 

 ratrher, HfFmnlnpus ptillinlus, now exf ir[)!ite<| from Labrador, but 

 cotnmoD when Audubon waa there in IS'M. 



