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bitch. The doors were all locked up, nor could we 

 discover, where the people were gone. In the 

 evening the Esquimaux which we had seen at 

 Spotted Island, arrived here in a small shallop 

 and a whaling-boat, and pitched their tents among 

 my houses: which now consist of a dwelling-house 

 and store-house in one, sixty feet by twenty five, 

 and two stories high; a house for the servants, 

 thirty feet by seventeen; three salmon-houses, 

 ninety feet by twenty each; and a smith's shop, 

 sixteen feet by twelve. On the south side of 

 the dwelling-house, we found a tolerable large 

 garden; with i)lenty of cabbages, turnips, let- 

 tuces, pease, and other things in full perfec- 

 tion. 



Friday^ Septemher 12, 1783. I had the vessel 

 warped to the wharf head and landed all my 

 goods; having taken the liberty of breaking open 

 the servants house. T had a little trade with the 

 Indians, but they had not much to sell; having 

 already dis])Osed of most of the goods which they 

 brought this year. At eight o'clock at night Mr. 

 rVillingham, the cooper, and a boy arrived in the 

 Neddy (formerly the Caplin) from White-bear, 

 and Eagle Ivixci-. wliither they had been to bring 

 away some nets and tivips, which were left there. 

 I now had the moi'titication to hear, that my peo- 

 ple ]\;\(\ killed x'ei'v few furs last winter, and only 

 seventy-one tieives of salmon this summer. But 

 those disap|>oiiitnieiits were nothing, compared to 

 anothej' wliieli I now experienced; foi* the sup- 

 posed ore, proved to be a friable substance of no 



