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liiigliain has gut it also wlik-li he tells me is 

 not the first time, having eanght it of them for- 

 merly. 



Wednes.j July 26, 1786. Last night about twelve 

 o'clock, the moschetos being verv troublesome, 

 ^fr. CoUingham got up and made such a smoke in 

 the kitchen, as in a short time filled every part 

 of the house: fortimatoly I awoke just in time to 

 save our lives: Mrs. Colliugham being quite over- 

 come with it, was carried out of bed into the open 

 air in a lifeless state; all the rest of us were 

 obliged to jump out of our beds, and run naked 

 out of doors; where we were forced to remain 

 above an hour, before the smoke was sufficiently 

 cleared away for us to be able to endure it. 



[On Stniday, July 30, 1786, Capt. Cartwright 

 sailed in the Fox for Temple Bay which he 

 reached on August 10th. Here he re-embarked in 

 the Merlin Sloop of War, Capt. Edward Packen- 

 ham, and sailed for St. John's, Newfoundland. 

 This i)ort was not reached until October 2nd as 

 the whole western and southern coasts of New- 

 fouiidhmd were leisurely skirted.] 



Tuc.sda/j, Ortohrr .7, 17f^6. ' After breakfast I 

 brought most of* my baggage on shoi-c, and took 

 my leave of cajitain P.ickenham and his officers; 

 tlic l.iiicr T sliall always remember witli ])leasure, 

 for tlicii' (•i\ility to me: lnit as to llic f'oi'iiici', T 

 can not say that my (►bligations to liini, are any 

 Li'i'cat biii'tluMi to mo. Mr. I*oii1li' lo^l-: me with 

 Inni lo Mr. Ogdcn's the sni"^(Mni n\' tlie island, 



' Richard Ilouth, Collector of the Cu.stoinH at St. John's. 



