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work to come up with the staggard. I also shot 

 a duck, and saw a prodigious number of geese. 



Monday, October 30, 1775. I went round my 

 walk; and one of the traps which were tailed for 

 otters was struck up, and I had a porcupine in 

 another. Several large flocks of ducks flew close 

 past Brocket Point. Finding myself much weak- 

 ened by wearing flannel shirts, I this day put on 

 a linen one, and intend wearing no others in 

 future. 



Tuesday, October 31, 1775. I went with Jack to 

 Earl Island; we shifted one of his traps there, 

 and saw the fresh slot of a deer. Had linen sheets 

 put upon my bed instead of flannel ones. 



Friday, November 3, 1775. At three this after- 

 noon the Otter arrived from Charles Harbour, 

 from whence she sailed the twenty-second of last 

 month, with thirteen hands to complete the crews 

 here. They informed me, that the gale of wind, 

 which happened here on the eleventh of Septem- 

 ber, reached that place on the twelfth, and did 

 infinite mischief both on this coast, and all round 

 Newfoundland. Our ship the Earl of Dartmouth 

 was driven on shore and greatly damaged, but 

 was got off and repaired; our two shallops were 

 driven on shore; one almost beat to pieces, and 

 the other much damaged; the planter's boat was 

 wrecked; four out of five of Noble and Pinson's 

 vessels were driven on shore and bulged; several 

 of their boats were wrecked in Lance Cove; seven 

 others were driven over to Newfoundland and 

 there lost, together with twenty-eight out of 



