202 CAPTAIN CART WRIGHT'S 



Hayes went down the eastern passage, in one 

 skiff, and brought ten ducks, a tern, a gull, and a 

 hundred and thirty-six eggs; and four hands and 

 Jack went along with me in another skiff, over 

 the Flats, and visited some of the islands there: 

 we brought in a beaver, a goose, a bottle-nosed 

 diver, five ducks, four strangers, and three hun- 

 dred and seventeen eggs. We found the beaver 

 upon one of the duck islands, but what he was 

 doing there, I cannot guess ; at first I thought that 

 he had been sucking eggs, but upon opening his* 

 paunch, I could find no signs of them. We landed 

 on Sandy Head, and discovered a very fine, large 

 river, which looks likely to produce plenty of 

 salmon, to which I gave my own name; the bed 

 of it is sandy, which has made large shoals off the 

 mouth of it, through which there is no channel, 

 and at low water spring-tides, they have not one 

 foot of water upon them. 



A dull day, with fog aloft. 



Thursday, June 13, 1776. In the evening some 

 of the people came down from Paradise, and 

 brought three of the new skiffs; both the crews 

 there had been living on bread and water for a 

 fortnight past. Smith brought his own and Math- 

 er's fur down with him: the whole of what we 

 have killed this last winter and spring, amounts 

 to ten deer, one white-bear, six wolves, seven wol- 

 verings, eighty-three foxes, eighty-six martens, 

 seven otters, two minks, one beaver and one flying 

 squirrel. 



Wednes., July 8, 1776, About noon hearing an 



