LABRADOR JOURNAL 205 



witli supplies on my own account, as our partner- 

 ship was to terminate at the end of this sunmier. 



Wed))cs., JuJij 24, 1776. The fur being aired, 

 I vahied it at a hundred and twent}^ eight pounds. 



Fridajj, July 26, 1776. At ten o'clock captain 

 Scott and I sailed in the Otter for White-bear 

 River, and arrived there at sun-set: but we got 

 aground about half a mile below the salmon-post. 

 We went up in the skiffc* and found spring tish 

 very scarce, but poolers were in tolerable plenty. 

 Two of the people had just killed a cub white- 

 bear and wounded its dam, which had another cub 

 with her. Thev killed two hundred and fourteen 

 fish to-day. 



Saturday, July 27, 1776. We unloaded the 

 Otter. After breakfast captain Scott and I went 

 up the river in a skiff to the cataract, below which 

 salmon were as thick as they could lie; I tried 

 them with fly, but could not raise one. We killed 

 foui' hundred and fifty-six fish to-day. 



Sunday. July 28, 1776. At eleven this morning 

 we attempted to fall down the river, but got 

 aground as we were weighing the anchor. In the 

 afternoon T discovered a very large white-bear 

 c()inii)g u]) the I'iver, upon the middle ground: 

 captain Scott and T waylayed him, ])ut he winded 

 the shalloway, landed on the south side, and ran 

 into the woods. At foui' o'clock we got under 

 weigh, and fell down to Nine-fathom TTole, where 

 we anchored for the night. We killed one hundred 

 and sixty-four fish to-dav. 



Sunday, AufjusI i, 1776. Captain Scott returned 



