316 CAPTAIN CARTWRIGHT'S 



THE SIXTH VOYAGE 



April, 1785. Although, the certificate which I 

 have received, is equal to a receipt in full; the 

 very liberal offers which my brother John has 

 made to me, are sufficient to enable me to live in 

 England with comfort; and the tormenting sci- 

 atica, with which I have been afflicted for these 

 five years last past, renders me totally unfit to 

 encounter those hardships and fatigues which a 

 life in Labrador is subject to; yet, since I am con- 

 vinced that there will be far short of twenty shil- 

 lings in the pound for my creditors, when the final 

 dividend on my bankruptcy is made, and as I can- 

 not look upon myself to be an honest man, unless 

 I pay up the last deficient penny whenever it is 

 in my power to do it; consequently I feel it my 

 duty to put myself in the way of obtaining money 

 for that purpose. As I see no j^rospect of doing 

 that by remaining in England, I have determined 

 to return to Labrador once more, to try m)^ for- 

 tune upon as large a scale, as my present confined 

 circumstances will admit of. My plan is, to keep 

 but few servants, and to employ them and myself, 

 in killing furs in the winter, and in trading with 

 the Indians in the summer. 



In consequence of the above resolutions, I have, 



