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afternoon anchor arrived Attuiock beavers bird boat brook brought Cape Cape Charles captain Caribou Cartwright Caubvick caught Charles Harbour Collingham Countess of Effingham Cove crew curlews day-light deer dogs ducks Dykes River England Esquimaux feet fire fish Fogo four Friday frost furriers gale George Cartwright Goose Cove grouse head hill hundred Indians Jack July June killed kyack Labrador Labrador coast land martens miles Monday mouth Newfoundland Newfoundland dogs night noon o'clock this morning observed Otter Pinson plenty pond pounds returned river rocks round sailed salmon Sandwich Bay Saturday Seal Island sent September shallop ship shore shot side skiff skin snow soon spruce spruce-game Sunday Table Bay tailed Temple Bay Thursday Tickle tierces to-day took traps trees Tuesday venison vessel walked weather Wednes white-bear wind winter wolf woods yards
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Page 219 - I came opposite to him, and finding myself then within fifty yards, I interrupted his repast, by sending a ball through his head; it entered a little above his left eye, went out at the root of his right ear, and knocked him over; he then appeared to be in the agonies of death for some time; but at last recovered sufficiently to land on my side of the river, and to stagger into the woods; where I found he bled so copious a stream, that it was impossible he could go far.
Page 130 - ... a very large addition of feathers, all of which are white; and that the coloured feathers at the same time change to white. In spring most of the white feathers drop off, and are succeeded by coloured ones; or, I rather believe, all the white ones drop off, and that they get an entire new set. At the two seasons they change very differently; in the spring, beginning at the neck, and spreading from thence; now, they begin on the belly, and end at the neck. There are also ptharmagans in this country,...
Page xxii - American Independence, the Interest and Glory of Great Britain. A New Edition. To which is added, A copious Appendix, containing two additional Letters to the Legislature; a Letter to Edmund Burke, Esq. controverting his Principles of American Government. And A Postscript, containing new Arguments on the Subject ; A...
Page x - I was visiting with the Lambs, at Hampstead, in Kent, at the house of Hodges, his brotherin-law; we had nearly finished dinner when he came in. He desired the servant to cut him a plate of beef from the sideboard. I thought the footman meant to insult him: the plate was piled to a height which no ploughboy after a hard day's fasting could have levelled; but the moment he took up his knife and fork, and arranged the plate, I saw this was no common man. A second and third supply soon vanished. Mr....
Page 121 - As they had never before feen any cultivated land (except a few fmall gardens, which they obferved were dug with a fpade) they formed an idea of our immenfe numbers, by being able to till fo much land and confume the produce of it in a year; exclusive of the animal food with which they faw our tables and markets abounded.
Page 20 - The first were nothing — had I still the last, It were the haven of my happiness ; But other claims and other ties thou hast, And mine is not the wish to make them less. A strange doom is thy father's son's, and past Recalling, as it lies beyond redress ; Reversed for him our grandsire's fate of yore, — He had no rest at sea, nor I on shore.
Page 290 - I muft call them fo. When they dive, they give a fmack on the water with their tails as they go down ; but that appears to me to proceed from the tail falling over with its own weight. They move very...
Page 114 - We had no sooner entered than I observed their attention riveted on a small monkey; and I could perceive horror most strongly depicted in their countenances. At length the old man turned to me and faltered out,
Page 304 - Funk Island is a small flat island rock about 20 leagues east of the island of Fogo, in the latitude of 50° north. Innumerable flocks of sea fowl breed upon it every summer, which are of great service to the poor inhabitants of Fogo, who make voyages there to load with birds and eggs. When the water is smooth, they make their shallop fast to the shore, lay their gangboards from the gunwale of the boat to the rocks, and then drive as many penguins on board as she will hold ; for, the wings of those...
Page 289 - I rather think the caufe of hermit bearers to be fidelity ; as they are very faithful creatures to their mate ; and by fome accident...