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luicuiiniion uoise on the south of the harbour, I 

 went over in niv kvack, and found it was a bitch 

 doater with her whelp. Great quantities of salmon 

 came in from sea to-day. 



Our voyage is absolutely ruined, by a vessel not 

 arriving with the necessary supplies. 



Safnrdaij, J idij 0, 1776. At noon, taking all my 

 family, and a tent in one of the new skiffs, which 

 I have a})proiJriated to my own use, and called the 

 Roebuck, I set out on a crtiise of pleasure to the 

 eastward, in hopes of meeting our vessel. I tailed 

 a large trap for bears on the shore under Black 

 Head, then went to Wreck Island, w^here we shot 

 six ducks, gathered sixty-one eggs, and dined; 

 after which they landed me on Huntingdon Island, 

 and proceeded to Egg Rock, where they killed six 

 ducks, two pigeons, and gathered two hundred 

 and fifty eggs. This is the fourth time that this 

 rock has been robbed this year, and we have taken 

 in all, about a thousand eggs off it, although it is 

 not above a hundred and fifty yards long, and 

 fifteen broad. I walked across the marshes to the 

 head of Egg Harbour, and found two good deer- 

 paths leading into it, but they had not been much 

 used this vear. The boat met me there, and we 

 ])itched the tent on the west side; great numbers 

 of geese and ducks were there on our arrival; and 

 we s.'iw plenty of ca])lin every ^yhel•e, as we came 

 rlown. 



ThursrJnj/, July 11, 1776. Aflei- breakfast, I 

 went to llie water-side ;in<l (•;inglit a few caplin 

 with a I;iii(]ing-net. At noon Jack and I went in 



