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At ten o'clock I sent the long l)oat with the mate 

 and ten men for the bears, and they returned with 

 them in the eA'ening: they also l)rought a pair of 

 ducks and four large baskets full of eggs; but 

 very few of them were good. On examining the 

 paunches of the liears, they found them well filled 

 with eggs. I had often heretofore observed, that 

 all the nests upon an island had been robbed, and 

 Ihe down pulled out; but I did not know till now, 

 how those things had happened. 



TJiiu'Sfhii/, June 19, 1777. T had the old bear 

 salted: a hind quarter of her weighed ninety 

 pounds, and all hough she was very lean, yet her 

 fat tilled half a pork-l)arrel. Plenty of the young 

 })ear was dressed for dinner, which, together with 

 sitting ducks and half hatched eggs, proved a 

 great treat to us, who had been so long confined to 

 salt provisions; how much soever such food may 

 be despised by those who never lived far from a 

 butcher. , 



There was a thick dry fog in the morning, and 

 wet one all the rest of the day. 



[On June 21st the ship anchored in Tartwi-ight 

 II.irt»"UF-. I I tlie?! went on shore, and had the 

 plcasni-c to liear, that all my people had enjoyed 

 go(.(l licalili since T left thcni; ])nt I had the mor- 

 tificniioii to be iiifornied, that they had got very 

 few I'nrs, and scai'cely moi-e seals than su])plied 

 them with sufTieient oil for thcii- own consump- 

 tion. 



Fruldi/, Jiiur 27, 1777. This morning the ship 

 unmoored, aiid ]»iv'pai-c(l t<i sail (nr Charles liar- 



