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had purcliased in Newl'oundlaiul; having had the 

 misfortune to be cast away at the mouth of Inglis 

 Harbour, and to loose the Stag in his return to 

 this phice; but he saved all the provisions and 

 the rigging of the boat. He met the Otter in Bat- 

 teau Harbour, and would have persuaded the peo- 

 ple to turn back, in order that these men might 

 go away also, as I did not want them; but he 

 could not prevail on them to do so, as the winter 

 was so far advanced. This is an additional dis- 

 tress to me; for I now have but nine barrels of 

 pork for fourteen people, when I ought to have as 

 much more; as I don't expect any vessel before 

 the middle of July; so that we are now in great 

 danger of being stamped for want of food, before 

 we can get a fresh supply. 



Friday, November 13, 1778. Early this morn- 

 ing I went to the new house, with Mr. Collinghani 

 and one man in the Roebuck, and then walked to 

 Blackguard Bay to look for the last lost trap, but 

 could not find it. At noon Mr. Daubeny and the 

 rest of the family followed in the Caplin with a 

 load of furniture, and we now took possession of 

 our new^ habitation; which is much too small, for 

 want of more boards and nails. 



Su)\(ht}f, November 1.5, 1778. T went round my 

 traps in Blackguard Bay; in one, T had a capital 

 silver-fox, approaching Ticarly to a l)lack; * in an- 

 othei- there was a good cross-fox, and T shot an- 



* In Ff'hninry 17S0, fliis fox w.-l'^ hoM hy iiuclion in London, for forty 

 guineas; nnfl hud lie not Ju'<'n nliRhtly nil)!)»'d on one liip by beinR 

 two ninhts in th*- trnp, he; would liavo fftrhcd sixty; being esteenu'd the 

 best that fiad hcon imported of Hcvcn years, 



