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fishing for cod and herring. These men stayed on board ten or fifteen 

 minutes, and as soon as they departed we filled away to beat through 

 the Strait. 



At 8 a. m. the yacht Sapper, of Bay of Islands, Newfoundland, passed 

 across our stern, running u winged out" to the eastward. She saluted 

 us by setting the Episcopal Church pennant, the Episcopal bishop of 

 Newfoundland being then on board of her making his annual visit to 

 the churches in his diocese. The salute was returned. 



About noon the wind increased to a fresh and strong breeze from 

 west by south to west-southwest, and there were indications of more 

 wind. The tide also began to set to the eastward, making it difficult 

 to beat through the strait against the sharp choppy sea that was run- 

 ning. Therefore we went into Black Bay for shelter, anchoring at the 

 head of the bay at 1.50 p. m. The schooner Terror, %f Shelbourne, 

 Nova Scotia, lay at anchor there, being engaged in trading on the coast. 



Later the wind increased to a strong westerly gale, with heavy squalls 

 and thick weather. The weather remained unfavorable, and detained 

 us in Black Bay until August 8th. On the 5th I went on board of the 

 Terror. Capt. J. W. Pitts, who was in command of her, and who had 

 been cruising along the coast from Mingan to Fox Bay, on the Labrador 

 coast, gave me considerable information concerning' the abundance or 

 absence of fish in the localities which he had visited. 



On the morning of the 5th a party of four went on shore on a collect- 

 ing expedition. Little success was met with in shooting, only two 

 sandpipers being bagged in a tramp of several miles. A large collec- 

 tion of plants, among which were numerous species of mosses, was 

 obtained. 



Mr. Lucas was very successful in catching trout in a brook which 

 Hows into the river that empties into Black Bay. Near the mouth of 

 the brook, which is about 2 miles from the mouth of the river, the fish 

 were small, but farther up the stream, near the rapid, fine trout were 

 abundant. He caught a total of 36 pounds, and two of the largest had 

 a combined weight of 4f pounds. 



In the early morning of the 8th there was a light northeast wind, 

 which increased to a moderate gale later on, with heavy squalls off" the 

 land. At 4.40 a. m. we got under way, under lower sails, and ran out 

 of the Strait.* Soon after starting we double reefed the mainsail and 

 furled it, and ran under whole foresail, jib, and forestay-sail for about 

 two hours, when we set reefed mainsail. At 6.45 a. m. passed Amour 

 Point. Half an hour later the wind came off the land in a squall, 

 blowing heavy ; lowered and furled the foresail and jib. The weather 

 became somewhat settled later, and at 9 a. m. we set foresail and jib, 

 and hoisted the flying jib in the afternoon. Little Mecattina Island 

 bore north at 5.30 p. in., when the wind moderated very suddenly from 

 a fresh to quite a light breeze from east by north. Shook reef out of 

 mainsail and set the light sails. Later the wind backed around to the 

 northwest, blowing a gentle breeze. 



