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aiuL repeatedly pressed me to adininister an oath 

 to him; but I did not ehiise that he should add 

 perjury to the crimes he had alread}" committed. 

 I disowned it [the child], and resolved never to 

 make any })rovision for it, unless I should here- 

 after be compelled so to do by a judicial sen- 

 tence. 



Fridufi, Mail 28, 1779. I walked to the end of 

 Slink Point, where I killed one goose, wounded 

 another, and struck up all the traps; which con- 

 cludes the fox-catchinu: for this season. The 

 whole of what we got at this place is as follows, 

 viz. sixteen silver-foxes, twenty-eight crosses, 

 nineteen vellows, twentv-six whites, and one blue- 

 fox, total ninety-six. Eight at least have been 

 eaten out of the traps, or have been lost with 

 them; and had the traps not l)een so very old 

 and bad we should nearly have doubled the above 

 number. AVhat I have now, are onlv the worst 

 of my old stock; for the privateer not only car- 

 ried away six dozen of new ones, which had never 

 ])een opened, but also, what good ones they found 

 ill use. 



Sinuhiif, Mnn SO, 1779. ^[rs. Selby's child ])eing 

 very ill t(»-(lay, T baptized it by the name of 

 ]Vraria. 



Dai'k 1ill hvo r> 'clock, and the rest of the day 

 proved as bad weather as it usu.illy is in the 

 montli (A' JaiiuaF'v in Enii:land. 



}fo))r]fiif, Mdif .?/, J779. Noi withstanding Dau- 

 bciiy o^U'Voc] to take his oath lliat he was per- 

 fect! v innoceni iA' all which he had ])een accused 



