Sunday the 20th, little wind, and clear weather.  Launch’d the barge, and went off to the wreck; we took up four casks of beef, with a cask of pease, which was stay’d, we serv’d out to each man five pieces of beef, and pease to suck as would have ’em, but there were none to take ’em, having now plenty of meat, our stomachs are become nice and dainty.

Wednesday, the 23d, the people went to the captain with a two gallon cagg, and ask’d it full of wine.  The captain refus’d ’em, but apprehending that they would make no ceremony of filling it without leave, and carrying it off by force, he thought proper to order it to be fill’d.  They brought it to the long-boat, and drank it in her hold.  Stept the long-boat’s mast forward.  The people very much disorder’d in liquor, and very quarrelsome.

Thursday the 24th, I was sent on a week’s cruize in the barge, the officers with me were Mr Jones, the mate, and the Honourable Mr B——­n, midshipman, and Mr Harvey the purser, who was a good draughtsman; we went in order to discover the coast to the southward, for the safety of the long-boat; we were informed on our return, that the people in our absence went to the captain and got two gallons of wine which they mixed with their half pints of brandy, they got all drunk and mad, but no great mischief ensued.  Six Indian canoes likewise came in our absence loaden with men, women, and children, and brought with them clams out of the shells strung on lines.  The Indian women dived for muscles, and brought them ashore in abundance, the men went to the fresh water river, and caught several fish like our English mullets.  The people bought dogs of the Indians, which they kill’d and eat, esteeming the flesh very good food.  The next day the Indians went out and caught a vast quantity of fish out of a pond, where they sent their dogs to hunt; the dogs dived, and drove the fish ashore in great numbers to one part of the pond, as if they had been drawn in a seyne; the Indians sold the fish to the people.  This method of catching fish, is, I believe, unknown any where else, and was very surprising; and, what is also very strange, after the Indians went away, we hauled the seyne over the pond, and could never get a fish.

Monday the 28th, returned with the barge; the first evening we were out we had a good harbour for the barge, which we put into; the first animal we saw was a fine large bitch big with puppies, we kill’d her, we then roasted one side and boiled the other, were exceedingly well pleased with our fare, supped heartily, and slept well.  The next morning we got up at day-break, and proceeded on our cruize, finding all along the coast to be very dangerous; at evening put into a place of very good shelter for the barge:  Here we found the Indians had been very lately, the shore being covered with the offals of seal; in an hour’s time we killed ten wild fawn, we roasted three geese and two ducks, the rest we put into a sea pye, so that we fared most elegantly;