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some time; and they had fed upon ihe blubber 

 whieh had been left in the casks. 



Wedma., February 25, 1778. On my giving 

 Tweegoek a small slap for some sluttish and dirty 

 tricks, she snatched up a penknife, which chanced 

 to lie on a table near her, and would certainly 

 have stabbed herself to the heart, if the point of it 

 had not iK'en stopped by a rib: 1 innnediately 

 took it from her, when she took her own knife out 

 of her pocket and made a second attempt with 

 tliat, but without effect likewise. She made two 

 small punctures under her left breast, l)ut of no 

 consequence. I then took good care to pacify her 

 effectually, before I let her go out of my sight. 



Siuulaii, March 29, 1778. Jack and Terry ex- 

 amined the countrv to the southwards: where 

 they found two marshes, four ponds and some 

 pretty good timber: but the latter is too far from 

 the water side to be of use. They saw no signs of 

 beavers, but met with the tracks of a few martens, 

 and killed two ]»oi'('upines. I took Patrick with 

 me, and went up I he suuth-east brook to the first 

 pond; then turned uoi'th-west, and came back, 

 through the woods. I had a cat ^ in a trap by the 

 brook, killed a porcupine, and saw flic tracks of 

 a lynx and another cat. T heard some crossbeak- 

 liunets sing, f'oi- the fii'st time fliis year. 



Moiiflnii, April C, 177H. At eiiiht this morning. 

 I set off for Last Ai-m, taking Pati-ick .iiid Jnck 



' As th*' wildcat, LynT nifTus, is not known to occur in I ahriuior, it 

 in po«Hiblf that CartwriKht rpfprn to the fisher, MunUla pcnnnntii, some- 

 tiiuui called the fliih cat or black cut. 



