322 CAPTAIN CARTWRIGHT'S 



I first came to this country, should get, for less 

 than nothing, possessions \Yhich cost me so much 

 labour, to find out, and money to establish. Had 

 they given a fair price for them, I should have 

 been contented, and my creditors would not have 

 been injured. 



Thursday, Septemljer 8, 1785. At eight o'clock 

 at night, a man arrived with a letter from Mr. 

 Collingham, informing me, that Mr. Dier had 

 forcibly seized upon all his whalebone, oil, and 

 furs, together with what belonged to my as- 

 signees and m^^self, and sent the w^hole to Mr. 

 William Pinson, at Temple Bay. Mr. Collingham 

 requested me to go immediately to Paradise in my 

 boat, to bring himself, his wife and baggage away 

 from thence, as he had no other chance of getting 

 from that place, nor any means of living at it. 



Monday, September 12, 1785. At one o'clock 

 this morning the Fox brought Mr. Collingham 

 and his wife, and also his baggage: likewise all 

 the remainder of those goods w^hich formerly be- 

 longed to me, and had either by accident or mis- 

 take not been mentioned in the inventorv; Mr. 

 Collingham having put them up to auction, and 

 bought them himself for sixty-two pounds ten 

 shillings. This day Mr. Collingham and I agreed 

 to enter into partnership for so long a time as 

 should be hereafter determined upon. 



Wednes., September 14, 1785. At two o'clock 

 this morning Mr. Collingham sailed for Temple 

 Bay in the Fox, with Tilsed, Will, and Jack, to 

 demand, from Mr. William Pinson, restitution for 



