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c HA p. j)urlng the 12th and 13th the wind blew very ftrong and 

 *- — ——J in violent gufts from the Eaflward, v^^ith conftant heavy 

 juij.' rain, which prevented any work from going forward. 

 FHaIy'^13.'^' Towards afternoon on the 14th, the weather growing mo^ 

 Saturday 14. derate, the people refamed their different employments, 



• Saturday 21. In the moming of the 21 ft I went in the whale-boat 

 into a fmail bay about three miles from the fhip, on the 

 South lide of the harbour, where fome days before 1 dif- 

 covered a quantity of fine watercreffes. The weather be- 

 ing tolerably fine, I took the carpenter (who lately had 

 been very ill) and a few others in the boat along with me, 

 that they might have a walk, and receive fome refrefhment 

 from the watercreffes. This little excurfion had a wonder- 

 fully good effedt on every one. We fat down on the grafs, 

 and made a hearty dinner of fried pork and falmon, and, 

 by way of fallad, had an abundance of watercreffes ; we 

 iikewife gathered a fufiicient quantity to ferve every perfon 

 on board. Behind the beach where we landed is a frefh- 

 water lake, that empties itfelf into the bay by a fmall river 

 at the Northern part of the beach, in which there was 

 abundance of falmon. Juft above the beach, between the 

 bay and the lake, there was a piece of wild wheat, about 

 two hundred yards long and five yards wide, growing at 

 leaf!: two feet high, among which we found the water- 



, . creffes. This wheat with proper care might certainly be 



made an ufeful article of food. On the edge of the lake 

 I faw the track of an animal which greatly refembled that 

 of the moofe-deer. We returned on board in the evening 

 without feeing any Indians, 



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