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drawing-knife, liatclaet, gouge and seven trap- 

 chains were in her; so that all hopes of their being 

 yet alive are now over. 



Monday, July 5, 1775. The fish here are the 

 largest, fattest and best I ever saw on this coast. 

 We had a pike ^ of six pounds in one of the nets, . 

 which is the first I ever heard of in this country. 



Thursday, July 6, 1775. We ballasted the Otter, 

 brought down the lost men's chests from their 

 house, killed thirteen tierces of fish, and left the 

 nets full. At two o'clock, leaving three salm- 

 oniers, the cooper and Jack, and taking the other 

 three hands with me in the Otter, I made sail for 

 Charles Harbour. 



Tuesday, July 11 , 1775. At five in the evening 

 we came to an anchor in Charles Harbour and 

 moored. I found our ship. Earl of Dartmouth, 

 arrived; she came in, the twenty eighth ult. in a 

 shattered condition, having met with the ice, five 

 or six degrees off the land, and had been fast in 

 it for twenty-three days. By her we learnt, that 

 the Lady Tyrconnel had been repaired, and re- 

 turned upon our hands by the underwriters, and 

 was on her voyage from Barcelona to Quebec with 

 wine, for Mr. Lymburner; from whence she was 

 to come here, Avith supplies of bread, flour and 

 other goods. 



Of all the dreary sights which I have yet beheld, 

 none ever came up to the appearance of this coast, 

 between Alexis River and Cartwright Harbour, 

 on my late voyage to Sandwich Bay. The conti- 



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