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trotted up and set oue foot fairly w itliiii the trap, 

 but not touching the ])ridge, lie was not eauglit. 

 xVt the same time, either winding or feeling the 

 trap, or perhaps winding my footstep on a rock 

 close by, he gave a sudden spring, and ran off at 

 full speed. I lay all the time flat uj^on the ice at 

 the water's edge, and on observing him go off I 

 tired at him, l)nt having only small shot, and being 

 full sixtv vards olf, he was not much the worse 

 for it. 



Moudaji, January 5, 1778. This morning, two 

 thirds of mv house was S(^ entirelv drifted over, 

 as to appear like a hill; and nobody would snp- 

 })ose it to be any other, were it not for the top of 

 the chinmey. At eleven o'clock, two of the sealers 

 arrived with a letter from the head-man, inform- 

 ing me, that on the day when they left this place, 

 thev got no further than a few miles bevond Sandv 

 Point: and that the next day, Josej)!! Poole going 

 on about two miles ahead of the rest, fell through 

 the ice and was drowned. Patrick AVoods, one of 

 those who came to-day, broke in also; but being 

 near the shore and within his depth, fortunately 

 gr)t out again, and by immediately drying himself 

 l)efore a good fire which they made in the woods, 

 took no harm. 



Fridd//, Januar// .9, 1778. Dull, mild weather, 

 witli ;\ Utile snow at times until i]]o evening, when 

 it t^i-ew clear, and fi'oze sharj)ly. Although sudden 

 and great changes of the weathei' most commonly 

 cause sickness in England, yet I ncx-er found tliey 

 had the same effeet in this countrv, notwithstand- 



