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formerly been a prisoner in England; he has a 

 great respect for our nation, and takes every op- 

 portunity of rendering services to the English in 

 this part of the world. He is a proprietor of the 

 greatest French house in the Newfoundland trade, 

 and has the direction of all their concerns on this 

 side of the Atlantic. Here also, and in almost 

 every harbour between this place and Conch, the 

 fishery has been good: but in those within the 

 Straights of Bell Isle, and Gulph of St. Lawrence 

 it has failed greatly. 



Tuesday, August 2, 1785. Mrs. Collingham and 

 I dined on board the Echo with captain Nichols, 

 [at Temple Bay] and we all went on shore at 

 Lance Cove, and drank tea with Mr. William 

 Pinson; who is agent to Noble and Pinson, and 

 son of the latter. Two families of Esquimaux, 

 part of some who lived last winter at the Isle 

 of Ponds, are now here, but no others have 

 been seen hereabouts this summer. Two men of 

 that nation were shot last year at Cape Charles, 

 by two others (Tukelavinia and Adlucock) for 

 the sake of their wives, which is the reason that 

 the rest did not come as usual. At Ance-a-Loup 

 and parts adjacent, the fishery has been pretty 

 successful. I saw one flock of curlews, 



Thursday, August 11, 1785. At six this morn- 

 ing we came to sail; at half past four, doubled 

 Cape North; and at seven, came to an anchor in 

 Isthmus Bay, opposite the house which I built 

 immediately after the privateer left me in the 

 year 1778: and in which I lived, that winter. I 



