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Second Cruise. 



Accordinjj: to your orders, I left St. John's on tlu; 9th St'[)tc'inl)or, and 

 after experiencing a fresh gale from the northwest, with a very heavy 

 s(>a on tlic 10th and lltli, arrived and anchor(>d in Tort Saunders, 

 llawke's Bay, on the evening of the lltli September. 



St. Joiix Island, September 15. 



Sent an officer on shore to communicate with the Frencli guardian. 

 Tliere were no complaints of any sort; the English and French being 

 apparently on very good terms. There was a con-5ider;iblc3 number of 

 I'aiglish schooners about St. John's Island and Point Riche (about forty 

 1 judged), but as the French made no comphuKt of their interference, I 

 concluded that they did not, in any way, interfere with the French fishery. 

 The fishing season has been a bad one, and the herring not yet in. 



Port Saunders, Keppel Island, Hawke's Bay, Sept. 15 to 17. 

 Tlie same bad reports about the fisheries. 



Bay of Islands. 



Got into the Bay of Islands on the 18th, just as a strong south-east 

 gale with thick weather was coming on, and rode it out in Took Harbor. 

 On the 20th went up Humber Eiver, and anchored off Pettipas Cove. 

 A thriving settlement. The herring, the only fishery, not yet in. On the 

 2l8t crossed over to Birchy Cove and communicated with Mr. Carter, 

 resident magistrate. He has a difficult position, but told me he waa, 



