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the winter, viz. fourteen pounds of flour, three 

 pounds of rice, four pounds and a half of bread, 

 and three quarts of peas per week, for nine people ; 

 as for meat, we have plenty. 



Tuesday, November 9, 1773. To my inexpres- 

 sible comfort, this day a boat came up here and 

 informed me that the brig was returned from 

 Quebec, and had brought me all I wrote for. 



Thursday, November 11, 1773. After a famine 

 comes a feast. Yesterday I had scarcely enough 

 to live on; today w^e abound in luxuries. I have 

 now, not only great plenty of dry provisions, but 

 also two sheep, several turkies, geese, ducks and 

 fowls; also potatoes, cabbages, carrots, onions 

 and apples. 



Tuesday, November 16, 1773. I went round my 

 traps and had one marten. In the evening my 

 slave girl ran away; I pursued her by her foot- 

 steps in the snow on this side of the river, to the 

 Narrows: night then coming on I returned, 

 knowing she could not cross it below. 



Wednes., November 17, 1773. Early in the 

 morning I crossed the river in search of the girl, 

 and found the marks of her feet where she had 

 crossed the ice, a little below the house, and 

 tracked her below the Narrows; where I met a 

 skiff, coming up from the sealing-post, with her 

 on board. She arrived late last night at her 

 mother's house. This boat brought some more 

 boards, and two casks of corn for the poultry; 

 likewise a letter from captain Monday, inform- 

 ing me that the vessel was ready for sea. 



