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lliat the remaining number, including the man at 

 Rxinger Lodge, and the crew at Paradise, 

 anK)unted in the whole to thirty-seven. And upon 

 the ])est calculation we were able to make, we 

 judged, that I cannot be less than fourteen thou- 

 sand pounds worse for this visit; which I have 

 great reason to fear, will prove my ruin. Had not 

 this happened, we had calculated upon fifteen 

 lumdred pounds profit on the year's work. As 

 the goods which the Americans took from me, 

 were such as they were greatly distressed for at 

 Boston, they valued their capture at seventy thou- 

 sand pounds. 



I shot a ])race of curlews to-day, and the skiff 's- 

 crew brought a porcupine. 



Tufsdaij, September ], ]778. I made prepara- 

 tions for sending two shallops to Newfoundland; 

 we laid one of them on shore to clean her bottom, 

 and got her off again in the evening. Mr. Colling- 

 ham went to Caribou, to see what was left there. 

 I shot one curlew. 



Tt rained all day. 



Wednes., Septewher 2, 177S. T wrote several 

 letters. Mr. rollingham returned at noon and 

 said, that nothing was left at Caribou besides my 

 bed, a few bad pease, some kegs of sour oatmeal 

 and tlic old seal-nets: they even took the dial- 

 plate, off tlic ])ost in 1hc garden. 



rhitrsddii, Srpfrnihrr .'?, }77S. At two this af- 

 ternoon, Ml-. Daubeny sailed in the Stag with four 

 hands f'ni- Cliarles llai'boiir: frnm whence he is 

 to go on to Newfoundland, to purchase some pro- 



