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Cartwright computed his losses at about £14,000. 
Fortunately, however, his brig, with all the salt and most 
of the other goods which the Americans had carried away 
in her, was retaken on her passage to Boston, and _ his 
losses proved not so great as he had imagined they would 
be. Others suffered more severely than he did. Noble 
and Pinson at Temple Bay lost three vessels and all their 
stores; and two merchants named Slade and Seydes lost 
a vessel each at Charles Harbour. The next year a small 
American privateer of four guns entered Battle Harbour, 
and captured a sloop there with about twenty-two tuns 
of seal oil on board. The stores on the shore, belonging 
to Slade of Twillingate, were destroyed. The result was 
that “everybody on this side of Trinity was in the utmost 
distress for provisions from the depredations of the priva- 
teers, as no vessels had arrived from England.” Cart- 
wright himself had to cut his men down to short rations 
during the winter. 
In 1786 Cartwright returned to England, and his diary 
closes. In the last entries are some interesting notes on 
the Strait of Belle Isle. At both Forteau Bay and Blane 
Sablon Cartwright founded establishments of fishing com- 
panies from Jersey. Behind the Isle de Bois he saw 
several American whalers lying at anchor. ‘“ Not having 
had any success with whales, they were catching codfish. 
As they dare not carry their fish to the European markets, 
for fear of the Barbary rovers, they are sent up to their 
own back settlements, where they fetch good prices.” 
The journal ends with a poetical epistle to Labrador. 
Ten years after Cartwright left the coast Labrador was 
again the victim of a hostile visitation. In August, 1796, 
