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1787. 

 June. 

 Wednef.6. 



Thurfilay 7. 



A VOYAGE TO THE 



On the 6th, the weatTier being fine, I fent the boatfwain 

 with four of the people to dig a piece of ground for a 

 garden on a fmall iiland fituated in the entrance of the 

 cove, and which I named Garden Ifland. After the ground 

 'was ready, we fowed variety of feeds in it, fuch as cab- 

 bage, onion, Scotch kale, radifh, favoy, purflane, thyme, 

 celery, fpinach, cauliflower, turnip, muftard, rape and 

 crefs, with peas, beans, French beans, and lettuce, be- 

 fides oats and barley. The foil being tolerably good, it 

 would be ratlier extraordinary if, among fo great a va- 

 riety, nothing fhould_ come to perfection. In the after- 

 noon of the yth a fmall open canoe, with five Indians in 

 it, came along-fide, from whom I bought two good fea- 

 otter ikins, and a large quantity of fine cod. 



At ten o'clock in the evening the whale-boat and yaul 

 returned from their expedition with a few very good fkins, 

 which they purchafed of a chief, whofe name was Sheen- 

 aawa, and whom I conjedure to be the fame perfon that 

 paid us a vifit at Montague llland. I intended them for a 

 longer trip, but it feems they unluckily got into a large 

 flat bay, where the boats grounded, and before they could 

 extricate themfelves from the fhoals, the tide ebbed, and 

 left them dry for near two miles round. Sheenaawa and his 

 tribe, which confided of near two hundred men, faw 

 their fituation, and paid them a vifit, moft of them armed 

 with fpears and knives. The boats crews at firft were 

 greatly alarmed at their fituation; but their fears rather 

 fubfifted when they found that plunder was what the In- 

 dians wanted. This they endeavoured to prevent, but at 

 tlie fame time kept their plunderers in good temper, which 

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