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side of White Bear Bay was begun and on July 

 14th he says: " All the shoremen were employed 

 on the dwelling-house, and the bricklayer began 

 the kitchen chimney."] 



Saturday, August 27, 177 A. Our new house be- 

 ing now habitable, we took possession of it to-day. 

 It is seventy feet by twenty-five, and contains a 

 kitchen twenty-four feet square, a dining room 

 twentj^-four by sixteen, six bed-rooms and a small 

 passage, being only a ground floor; which I pre- 

 ferred, for fear of fire.^ 



Saturday, Septemher 3, 1774. The Otter sailed 

 under the command of captain Dykes, with a 

 cooper's crew, consisting of two coopers, and two 

 young men, for Alexis River, where they are to 

 make hoops during the winter. From thence she 

 is to proceed to Sandwich Bay with Joseph 

 Friend, a youngster, and an apprentice, where 

 they are to remain during the winter, to kill furs ; 

 and in the sprmg, to prepare for a salmon-fish- 

 ery. 



Saturday, October 1, 1774. In the morning I 

 sent two hands to look at the traps by Atkinson 

 Pond: one of the small ones was carried away by 

 a bear: they killed a pair of ladies and an aunt- 

 sary. At one o'clock this afternoon, I married 

 William Bettres to Catharine Gourd (one of the 

 maid-servants whom we brought from Plymouth; 

 the other returned with captain Scott.) The re- 



^ On July 30, 1906 I traced the faint remains of the ruins of this house, 

 and satisfied myself by measurements of its identity. See " Along the 

 Labrador Coast," pp. 217-220. 



