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which was built siiice I left this place on Great 

 Caribou, for a caplin-sein, and reported that 

 there was plenty of caplin, but no cod. A rainy 

 day. 



Tui.sdinj, July IS, 1775. An Indian family 

 (moinitaineers) came here to-day, who said, that, 

 thev had been towards Sandwich Bav, and saw 

 a great smoke thereabouts. The other Indian 

 family was here when I arrived. 



Wt'dnes., Jul// J 9, 1775. We completed the 

 loading of the Otter, and at four in the afternoon, 

 taking captain Dykes, with four of his men, the 

 boatbuilder, a cooper, and both the Indian fami- 

 lies, consisting of thirteen persons, I sailed for 

 Sandwich Ba.\ , with the ship's long-boat in tow. 



Sioiddi/, J ((I If .23, 1775. At four this morning I 

 sent the long-boat for the salt, and wliilo it was 

 bringing off, I went with captain Jack (the princi- 

 pal Indian) in his canoe, round the cove [Devil's 

 Cove]. Wc killed live ducks, four geese, and an 

 otter. Wc returned at seven, just as the salt was 

 stowed, and g<»1 undci' sail immediately. We saw" 

 great plenty of cod and ('a])lin round the Dismal 

 Islands; and obseiwed, that ])l('n1y of shaggs ^ 

 and tinkers breed on them. In the afternoon we 

 aiieliored in Sand Hill Cove, where we found a 

 profligious (juantity of cod and ea|)lin; the foi'mer 

 wc cauLdit as fast as we eonld hand them in, and 



' Thf U-Tvn Hhag iw nppli'<i in Amorira both to tho (loubl<Hl-rrcfitcd cor- 

 morant. I'hnlncrnrnrnx auriluH, :inil thf coniinon ronnonuit , I'hdhirrn- 

 rtrrax rnr}>n, both of which brcH-<l on the Labrndor Con-st. In I'.nnhmd 

 tho Ifmi x/i'i'/ aiii)rK's to thf ("in'«'n Cormorant, /'. graculus, and not to 

 P. carbo which aWj occurs there and in called cormorant. 



