LABR.IDOR JOURXxU. 201 



Frulaji, May JO, l}7ii. After breakfast I sent 

 the liuliaii women to 8ii;iial Hill to pick 

 partridge-berries ^ and wateh tor deer. I then 

 pku-ed myself upon the iee, in the middle of the 

 harbour, and at foiu* oYdoek thev made me a 

 signal: soon after, seven deer came full gallop out 

 of Great Marsh, btit keei)iiig near the north shore, 

 they passed me at three hundred and fifty yards 

 distance. I then fired two guns without effect, 

 and they I'an \\\) the harbour. They seldom travel 

 so late in the day, but, as the frost did not go off 

 till the afternoon, they durst not venture on the 

 ice before the surface of it was thawed, for the 

 w^olves can kill them with the greatest ease upon 

 slippery ice. 



Clear with sharp frost till one o'clock; hazy 

 with thaw afterwards, and it snowed fast at night. 



Thursdaif, Majj ]6, 1776. One man watched the 

 deer as usiuil; the rest of the peo])le w^ere em- 

 ployed in cutting the ice round the shalloway, and 

 in jtniking up the fire-w^ood. Some hotmds ^ and a 

 loon ap])eared today for the first time. 



A little snow in the moi'uing, some sleet and rain 

 ill tlic afternoon, and at night it rained freely; 

 thawed all day. 



SunrJdi/, Jifur .9, 1776. At eight o'clock this 

 mr)niiiig, I went out a egging with all hands. John 



' Hp dooH not rofor to }fitrh(llit rrpens, thr " partridRO bprry," com- 

 mon in Nova Scotia and farther south, lnil [)r(ihal)lv to Vnrrhnum 

 Vilu'-Jftnea. 



^ Old squaw or lonR-tailod duck, Ilnrrlda hi/rntnh'.i. This name ia 

 still iiHffl for this «pr'fir'< on the Laf)rador coast, and is an appropriate 

 one as the calls of thcw ducks supRcst a pack of liounds in full cry. 



