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accidentally, blew a hole tliroiigli the umbrella. 

 Tilsed was planing boards, and the rest of the 

 people were sawing and cleaving tirewood. 



SiDtdaij, December 25, 1785. At noon ten deer 

 crossed the harbour from Martin's Cove, and land- 

 ing in that opposite the house, went upon the 

 High Barrens. This being Christmas-day, we 

 gave the people roasted venison for dinner, and 

 had for ourselves a mountain hare, an excellent 

 venison pasty, and a berry pie; we afterwards 

 finished the remaining three bottles of porter. 



Moudaij, January 2, 1786. Rein-deer have 

 many peculiarities, in wliich they differ from all 

 other kinds of deer; especially respecting their 

 horns. That the females have them as well as 

 the males, I have noticed in former parts of my 

 Journal; but till now, I never knew that they were 

 so irregidar in mewing them. I have seen stags 

 with theii- horns on the eighth of ^larch; I killed 

 one the fifth of April, which had mewed a little 

 time before; yet not only this deer, but also all 

 the other nine which w^ere with him, had mewled 

 about the same time; for the parts were not well 

 skinned over. One of those which I saw on the 

 twenty-third ult. was an old stag which had 

 mewed; but as I had no idea, that they did so l)e- 

 fore A})i'i], T thought that he naturally had not 

 had anv horns, from the circumstance of Hiat hind 

 having ])ut one, which we caught in a sli]) on the 

 eighth of Noveiiibci-. Notwithstanding 1ha1 Hie 

 male deer mew s«» in-cLiiiI.iflx', yet they nil bui'uish 

 in August. My j)coplc, who lived on Indian 



