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a trap, and he accidentally met with him ten days 

 after; he was alive, but so far from his house, 

 that he left him. Tero told Collingham, that soon 

 after the last boat left him, several Indians 

 stopped a few days on Separation Point; that 

 they staked the beaver-house which I found in 

 the summer, hung the two traps which he had 

 in it upon a tree, and had stolen the chains off 

 them. Martens were beginning to run again. 

 The snow is now grown very rotten. 



Wednes., April 14, 1779. I made a beaver-net 

 today of seal-twine. In the afternoon Mr. Dau- 

 beny visited some of his traps near home; two of 

 which were struck up. 



Wednes., April 21, 1779. At day-break Mrs. 

 Selby was taken in labour, and at ten o'clock I 

 delivered her of a daughter. At seven Mr. Cogh- 

 lan's men set off for Sandhill Cove. Daubeny 

 and Collingham went round the traps of the lat- 

 ter, on Venison Head, and brought in a white-fox. 

 Three men were throwing the snow out of the 

 cook-room. 



Thursday, April 22, 1779. Two men were at 

 work in the cook-room. Mr. Daubeny went with 

 me round my traps; three of them were carried 

 off by foxes, none of which we could find. He 

 shot a hare, and we saw another; also a brace 

 of white-foxes near a breeding earth, which is 

 under the cliff on the north-east side of Mount 

 Martin, on which there is a falcon's * nest. The 



* Cartwright may refer to duck hawk, Falco peregrinuf^ anatum, or to a 

 white or black gyrfalcon, Falcn islandus, or F. ruslicolus obsoleius. 



