LABRADOR JOURNAL 195 



day; clear with hot sun, and very warm out of the 

 wind. 



Simday, March 17, 1776. This being St. Pat- 

 rick's Day, the people as usual, got beastly drunk. 

 I sent Jack round my walk, and he brought the 

 fore-half of a good cross-fox ; the cursed wolf had 

 eaten the rest. 



Wednes., March 20, 1776. Jack and I went 

 round our traps; I shot an American bulltinch,^ 

 wliicli is as large as an English thrush. They 

 come here in s})ring to breed, and leave us at the 

 latter end of summer; this bird was full of par- 

 tridge-berries. 



Wednes., April 3, 1776. At three o'clock this 

 morning Nooquashock, the eldest India woman, 

 was taken in labour: my skill in these matters, 

 was now fairly put to the test, for she had both 

 a cross birth and twins, but at two in the after- 

 noon, I delivered her of a brace of daughters. I 

 then visited my traps, and had a marten; another 

 had been at the seal, but the traps w^ere so loaded 

 with wet snow, they could not strike up. Several 

 foxes, and some wolves had looked at many of 

 them, ])ut they would not meddle with any. 



Sim day, April 7, 1776. I went round some of 

 my traps, and found six of them robbed by foxes, 

 and five out of the seven about the seal, struck up; 

 a marten w^as in one, and a jay had been eaten out 

 of another; the other three, T fancy had l)een 

 struck up by jays. At three o'clock the deer- 



' Canadian pino proflbpak, Pinirnla cnvrlrnlor Icnrvrn. Cnrtwright 

 lator Hpeaks of the American robin under the name of the robin-red-breast. 



