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the latter we gathered in great numbers among 

 the rocks, where they were left by the tide. The 

 Indians went on shore and made a whigwham, 

 where they remained all night, and in the evening 

 one of them shot at a black-bear. Their tracks 

 were very plentiful on the shore, and I watched 

 them till dark, but saw none ; I then tailed a large 

 trap for them. There is a large jam of ice in the 

 offing, and a great deal comes into Table Bay, 

 which was the principal reason of our coming into 

 this place. 



The day was fine, but there was much haze 

 round the horizon. 



Monday^ July 24, 1775. At four this morning, 

 I sent the long-boat on shore for some sand and 

 the trap; and at six, we went to sea. We had 

 fish for the haul this morning, and I never saw so 

 fine a place for a cod-sein; the bottom being 

 smooth, white sand, with an extensive beach of 

 the same. I found a ^ stag's head of seventy-two 

 points, in full perfection, and brought it away; 

 the beast had been killed by another in rutting- 



* This head is now in the possession of the Earl of Dartmouth.* 

 1 Mr. J. G. Millais (" Newfoundland and its Untrodden Ways," London, 

 1907) says he has never seen a Newfoundland caribou with more than 

 forty-nine points. He adds in a note (p. 317): " No point should be 

 included that does not fulfil the old watch-guard or powder-horn test, 

 unless it may be a clean blunt snag at least half an inch from the main 

 horn. The Germans count everything as a point upon which a torn 

 piece of paper will rest, but we regard as ' offers ' all small excrescences 

 that do not fulfil the old British conditions. For instance, Captain Cart- 

 wright's famous ' seventy-two point ' Labrador head, which I have re- 

 cently traced, and on which he counted every offer, has in reality fifty- 

 three points." This is no reflection on Cartwright'a accuracy but simply 

 shows diverse methods of counting points. 



