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liugsheads of furs ou board the Marteu, to be 

 carried to 8t. Joiiu's for fear of accidents here, 

 and spent the day on board with her captain. I 

 sent a man ont a deer shooting, upon the Cape 

 kind, but he saw none. 



Satardaij, Aucjtist 21, 1779. Captain Durell was 

 so obliging as to give me the assistance of some of 

 his people, who put a new mainmast and boom 

 into the Beaver, and did some work on the Count- 

 ess of Effingham; also the captain and his purser 

 dined, and spent most of the day with me. The 

 boats came in at night without a fish; and it was 

 a double mortifipatinn to me, to reflect that much 

 about this time last year, Avhen I was visited by 

 that accursed privateer, I had venison, curlew^s, 

 and other good things in the greatest plenty; but, 

 that now, when friends were come, I had not one 

 morsel of anything but salted provisions to set 

 before them: the weather likewise was too bad 

 to get anything. 



Sunday, Auf/usf 20, 1779. We saw an old, bitch 

 l)lack-bear with a very small cub, going up wind 

 ())i the south-west shore; T landed behind them, 

 gdf a sliot nt the old one, and struck her through: 

 llicy then I'.Mii 11)) Ibe hill. T laid down my gun, 

 ])iij-sued and raiight the cul) in my li;mds. Tbe 

 ihuw no sooner heard it ery, ihan she sk)])pe(l, 

 I'narcd ;iii(l llii-c.-iiened nic with an attack; but the 

 mate fii-cr] ;in(l l^illcd licr. T sent the cub on board, 

 intendiiiL: lo kccj) 11 ;ili\'e; l)iit my people being 

 miK'b ;irF-;ii<l i1 would wori-y them, sfpieezed it so 

 h.'ird MS t'l foi-cf flic mc'il undigested through it, 



