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visions and a few other necessaries. At the same 

 time captain Kinlock sailed in the Wolvering for 

 St. John's, in Newfoundland, with the sailors; 

 where he is to sell the boat and endeavour to pro- 

 cure a vessel, to carry the salmon and the re- 

 mainder of the codfish to market. 



Monday, September 7, 1778. My new house 

 which was building, was pulled down; and the 

 materials carried into the stage, to be ready to be 

 sent up the harbour where I intend to build a 

 house for myself to live in this winter; because I 

 am sure we shall be so short of provisions, that 

 if we have not good success with our traps and 

 guns, we must all inevitably perish for want of 

 food, before a vessel can possibly arrive next sum- 

 mer; and there is no chance of killing much about 

 Caribou. 



Wednes., September 9, 1778. We spread the 

 green fish, put it into piles this evening, and 

 heaved one pile. After breakfast I took traps up 

 to the highest part of this island and tailed them 

 for hares. At noon, we saw a shallop coming in 

 here from the southward. Fearing a privateer's 

 crew might be in her, I aniied all my people with 

 guns, sticks or stones, and placed them in ambush 

 behind one of the window-leaves of the stage; 

 but it proved to be William Phippard, who is go- 

 ing with four hands to winter in Ivucktoke Bay. 

 He informed me that the privateer had plundered 

 the merchants in Temple Bay and Charles Har- 

 bour, very severely; by his accomit, more so than 

 they did me. 



