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A VOYAGE TO THE 



c HA P. f^ant and habitual ufe become to them familiar and fer- 



*- — — — ' viceable. 



1787. 



June. 



Saturday 30. In haulIng the feine on tlie 30th, we caught a large quan- 

 tity of herrings and fome falmon ; the herrings, though 

 fmall, were very good, and two hogiheads of them were 

 falted for fea-ftore. 



July. Old Taatucktellingnuke took leave of me on the ill of 



"" ^^.'* July, and with his tribe left the harbour and paddled to- 

 wards Montague Illand. 



Friday 6. At noon on the 6th the whale-boat and yaul returned 



from their expedition without the leaft fuccefs, not having 

 fcen a iingle canoe during their trip. Their route was 

 from our harbour towards Montague Ifland, and from 

 thence over to the South Weft part of the Sound; having 

 my diredlions, if they found it could be done without 

 much rifk, to look into an opening that is fuppofed to 

 lead from the Sound into Cook's River, through the river 

 Turnagain. On getting over on the South Weft ftiore, 

 they m^et with great quantities of drift-ice, coming, as 

 they fuppofed, out of that opening, and at the fame 

 time heard a conftant jumbling noife rcfembling the 

 breaking up of ice in a large river. Foggy weather now 

 coming on, the ofticer who had charge of the boats did 

 not think it prudent to venture in with them, but fpent 

 the night near that iituation, and the morning being ftill 

 foggy, he directed his courfe to the North, and came back 

 by Snug Corner Cove, without (as 1 have before obferved] 

 ineeting with any Indians whatever. 



Being 



