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the accumulation of interest and the late addi- 

 tional losses, my debts were considerably in- 

 creased. However, I had yet one chance left, for 

 I received a letter from my agent, Mr. Robert 

 Collingham, informing me that he had met with a 

 vein of some kind of ore, twenty inches wide. I 

 therefore determined to return again to Labrador, 

 and take a miner from Derbyshire with me to ex- 

 amine it; not in the least doubting, but I should 

 soon be out of debt, and also in very affluent cir- 

 cumstances. I then appointed my brother John 

 my attorney, to transact all the business of the 

 executorship, put all my late father's effects into 

 his hands, and prepared for my intended voy- 

 age. 



June 5, 1783. This morning at three o'clock I 

 left London, and went in the stage coach to Poole. 

 I arrived there at eight o'clock that night, and 

 went to Mr. Lester's house; where he politely en- 

 treated me to continue until my embarkation, and 

 I accepted his offer. I found Samuel Mather, a 

 Derbyshire miner, had arrived here some time 

 since. 



July 7, 1783. This afternoon, I embarked on 

 board a brig belonging to Mr. Lester, called the 

 Labrador, commanded by Mr. John Pitt; and 

 bound to Trinity in Newfoundland. 



[On August 24th Cartwright landed at Trinity 

 Harbour, and on August 30th he sailed in the brig 

 Catharine for Paradise, in Labrador, where he 

 arrived at noon on September 11th]; but found 

 no living creature there, except a Newfoundland 



