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hills: I am afraid it will overtake me, before I 

 am ready for it. Mr. Daubeuy not being yet re- 

 turned, with a supply of provisions and clothing, 

 makes me very uneasy. Under these distresses 

 and inquietudes, would any man believe, that my 

 people have been ready to mutiny, because I 

 would give them no salted pork along with their 

 two pounds of fat venison each day for dinner? 

 Yet it is a fact: nor could I quiet them until I 

 peremptorily declared, that I could not possibly 

 suffer any salted meat to be expended, whilst any 

 fresh remained in the house; and that, if they 

 were not content, I would give them, what I verily 

 believed they much deserved, a hearty drubbing. 



Monday, October 12, 1778. At nine at night Mr. 

 Collingham returned from Paradise with some 

 hoop-poles, planks, salmon-nets, and all the peo- 

 ple from thence. At Longstretch he found all the 

 Indians, who intended going to Paradise. They 

 had eight canoes, and were about forty in num- 

 ber; from them he purchased forty-eight beaver, 

 eleven otter, and three black-bear skins. 



Thursday, October 29, 1778. At three o'clock 

 this morning, I sent off all my discharged servants 

 in the Otter; there were thirteen of them. We 

 repacked the largest pile of fish, upon the place 

 where it is to stand all winter. 



Wednes., November 4, 1778. About one o'clock 

 this morning, Mr. Daubeny, and the four hands 

 whom he took with him, returned in a shallop be- 

 longing to Mr. Seydes and Co. He had borrowed 

 this vessel to bring the provisions, &c. which he 



