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much as could be made during the day, for it 
was requisite to use this precaution in filling our 
casks, in. order to ensure their contents being 
untainted by the salt water. 
Our fuel had been completed at Port Hurd, or 
we could have procured an abundance at a con- 
venient place about two miles to the westward 
of the Fort. 
Our next object was to procure fresh provisions; 
but, as there was some difficulty in obtaining 
a constant supply, Mr. Hazaart kindly presented 
the ship s company with two karaboivs (young 
buffaloes) and a sufficiency of vegetables to last 
until our own stock was provided ; but in procuring 
it we found much difficulty for want of money, and 
should not have been able to have furnished 
ourselves with it, had not Mr. Hazaart, at his 
own personal inconvenience, given me money for 
a private bill, with which the ship’s provisions 
were purchased. 
A small mountain sheep, weighing from twelve 
to twenty pounds, cost five shillings : pigs, ac- 
cording to their size, from five to ten shillings 
each: a karcibow, weighing two hundred pounds, 
was charged twenty shillings ; and fowls were 
from four-pence to five-pence each. Of vegeta- 
bles we found an abundance, particularly of pum- 
pions and cabbages, in the market ; but, as it was 
1818 . 
June 
5 — 13 . 
