266 CAPTAIN CARTWRIGHT'S 



of, yet, this day, he confessed to me, that he was 

 guilty of the crime laid to his charge. 



Tuesday, June 1, 1779. At nine o'clock this 

 morning I sent Daubeny in a skiff with four hands 

 to White-bear River, a rinding. I had a punt 

 trimmed, and at six in the evening, sent four 

 other men after him. I took an account of the 

 provisions which are left, and found that, owing 

 to the success of our traps, slips, and guns, to- 

 gether with good oeconomy, I have now enough 

 left to last until the end of September. I was 

 under the greatest apprehension all winter, of 

 falling short of provisions before any vessel could 

 arrive with a supply. From the delays of wait- 

 ing for, and sailing with convoy, I did not sup- 

 pose the arrival could be earlier than the middle 

 of July; and, if the vessel should chance to be 

 taken, I should be obliged to send a boat to St. 

 John's, in Newfoundland. I therefore would not 

 suffer a morsel of salted meat to be expended at 

 such times as there was anything fresh in the 

 house: and it was no small additional uneasiness 

 to me, that my people were, three or four times, 

 on the point of mutiny, because I would not give 

 them salted pork, which they threatened to take 

 by force: but I prevented their doing so, by as- 

 suring them, that I would shoot the first, and 

 every man, who should make an attempt of the 

 kind. 



Unfortunately, the foxes went out of season 

 much sooner than usual, and by the month of 

 March, they smelled so rank, that I could not 



