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the stolen goods, and in ease of refusal to proceed 

 to England to lay the case before His ^lajesty's 

 ministers, and also to endeavour by law to obtain 

 redress. 



Wcdues., September 28, 1785. At five in the 

 evening, ^Ir. Collinghani returned in our boat, 

 and another of Noble and Pinson's came along 

 with him, with four hands to winter at Paradise. 

 These boats brought the remainder of my provi- 

 sions, all the pine boards, and the goods from In- 

 dian Island. JVlr. Collinghani informed me, that 

 Mr. William Pinson had restored the goods which 

 Dier robbed him of, and that he had shipped them 

 on freight in the Mary, commanded by Mr. Pin- 

 son himself, and had consigned them to our friend 

 Benjamin Lester, Esq., at Poole. He also said, 

 that he saw a brig and a shallop among the Seal 

 Islands, which belonged to an adventurer from 

 Quebec; who was going in the shallop to winter 

 in Ivucktoke Bay, and intended leaving the brig 

 witl) ;i <rew of hands to winter where they were, 

 and t(» hsh for seals. 



Safuvdaij^ Deeemher 10, 1786. Oliserving that 

 Willijini and Alexander still persisted in their old 

 tri<'ks of being as idle as })()ssihle, I i"e(juested Mi*, 

 r'ollinghnni to give each of them a severe beating 

 with ;i i-ope's end, whicli he excn-utcd in a mas- 

 \i-v\y niaiuic)-. Sori-y am 1 lo (»l)S('i'\-e, thai all the 

 fniir <'on\-i('ts aiv- so intolcraltly idle, thai nolliing 

 bnl s('\f'rity, can iiKJiicc them \^) do thei?- woi'k as 

 they on^rht. (lenllc means lin\(' hitlici'lo been 

 used in \ain; and now we are detei-mined lo try 



