168 CAPTAIN CART WRIGHT'S 



pointed we weighed again, and spent the night 

 under sail between Huntingdon Island, and the 

 Continent. 



A fine day, but the night was dark and cloudy. 



Tuesday, June 27, 1775. At four this morning 

 we entered Cartwright Harbour, and at eight got 

 into Sandwich Bay, when we anchored off a point 

 called, Longstretch, and I went oft* in the skiff for 

 our people's house. Three miles below the nar- 

 rows of Hinchingbrook Bay, and on the south 

 shore, I found the old punt, which they brought 

 with them, on shore and staved; this made me 

 apprehend some accident had happened to them; 

 on a point at the entrance of the river, I found 

 a trap on a rubbing-place struck up, with the 

 grass grown through it, which increased my fears, 

 and those were afterwards confirmed at one 

 o'clock, when we arrived at their house, Avhich 

 I found they had left some time ago. On exam- 

 ining their chests, I found a letter for me in the 

 head-man's pocketbook, informing me, that they 

 had been almost two months on very short allow- 

 ance; had eaten their dogs and part of the skins 

 of the furs which they had caught, and did not 

 expect to live long. This letter was dated the 

 twenty- third of May, and by Friend's journal, I 

 believe they continued here until the end of that 

 month. They had built a skiff, and as she was 

 gone, and they had plenty of powder and shot, I 

 am in hopes they have got to sea, where they will 

 be well supplied with ducks and eggs. In the 

 house I found thirty fox, forty-seven marten, ten 



