270 CAPTAIN CARTWEIGHT'S 



Friday, July 9, 1779. At nine o'clock at night 

 I was alarmed by a rapping at my door; but was 

 soon relieved from my fears, by the appearance of 

 captain Kinloch and nine servants, which were 

 some of my old hands. He informed me, that my 

 old ship, the Comitess of Effingham, was safe at 

 an anchor in North Harbour, with all the salt and 

 most of the other goods, which the Minerva's peo- 

 ple had carried away in her. She had been re- 

 taken on her passage to Boston by five of the 

 crew which had been put on board at this place 

 to conduct her thither; three of whom had entered 

 from me, and two from Noble and Pinson. They 

 carried her into Dartmouth, where she was de- 

 livered up to my agent. She sailed from thence 

 to Waterford, in the beginning of June; and from 

 thence came hither. Kinloch had met with a deal 

 of ice near the land, and had got through it with 

 much difficulty, and the loss of the ship's head. 

 I gave them plenty of boiled bear for supper, but 

 some of the new hands were so nice, that they 

 would not eat it. 



Monday, July 12, 1775. At five in the after- 

 noon, James Gready, and his two hands returned 

 from Charles Harbour in a sealing-skiff of mine. 

 He informed me, that a small American privateer 

 of four guns had gone into Twillingate this spring, 

 and there taken a vessel, laden with old fish, be- 

 longing to Mr. Slade of Poole, and had given all 

 the goods which were in his stores, to the poor 

 inhabitants of the place; that from thence she 

 had come to Battle Harbour on this coast, and had 



