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mislakeu. This day we liad anotlier uiisfortuue: 

 we brought two sows big with pig from Ireland, 

 under the assurance that they woidd not pig in 

 less than six weeks, but one of them brought forth 

 today. Being the anniversary of the King's birth- 

 day, (•a])tain Seott and myself drank an extra bot- 

 tle to his Majesty's health, and gave our people 

 some rum, that the}" might do the same. 



Fridaji, Juuc 10, 1774. Tliis day we saw the 

 first penguin and several bulls/ Longitude per ac- 

 count corrected from the last obserA^ation 48° 42'. 

 We have had hard gales with a great sea for this 

 week i^ast, which made the vessel labour prodi- 

 giously. 



Tuesday, June 14, 1774. At four o'clock this 

 morning we saw the island of Belle Isle bearing 

 West Xoi-tli West, distance five leagues. At five 

 we saw the land of Drifty ^lountains, Cape 

 Charles, and Cape St. Lewis; and, continuing our 

 course we ran directly into Charles Harbour, 

 where we anchored at one o'clock in the afternoon, 

 by which we found the observ^ation true within 

 foui- or five Tuiles; an exactness very sufficient 

 foi- every ]»ur])ose. At three T Avent up to the 

 Lodge in a skiff, anrl found .-ill my ]X'0]>le well, 

 excepling one man wlio had lost his toes hy the 

 frost ill ^ilay last; and had the mortification to 

 heai", that there was a general failui'c of seals last 

 season. 



[On June 26, 1774, ** our new dwelling-house " 

 at Stage Cove, r»n the point of land on the noi'th 



• Dovekiea or little auks, Allc alle. 



