Monday the 29th, launch’d the yawl to go with the Indians to shew us where they get the muscles; but being too late for the tide, we came away without any:  The captain sent to our tent two quarters of mutton; the carpenter daily at work on the long-boat.  Winds variable.

On the 30th, the Indian women went again for sea-eggs, and brought a great quantity, with abundance of white maggots, about three quarters of an inch in length, and in circumference the bigness of a wheat-straw.  These women keep an incredible time under water, with a small basket in their hands, about the size of the women’s work-baskets in England, into which they put whatever they get in their diving.  Among these people the order of nature seems inverted; the males are exempted from hardships and labour, and the women are meer slaves and drudges.  This day one of our seamen died:  We observe, the Indians are very watchful of the dead, sitting continually near the above-mention’d corpse, and carefully covering him, every moment looking on the face of the deceas’d with abundance of gravity:  At the burial their deportment was grave and solemn, seeing the people with their hats off during the service, they were very attentive and observant, and continued so till the burial was over:  They have nothing, as I have said before, but a blanket to cover ’em, and the boys and girls are quite naked, notwithstanding we felt it as cold here, as in the hardest frosts in England, and almost always rainy.

Wednesday, July the 1st, employ’d in cutting timbers in the woods for the long-boat; rainy weather, the wind at S.W. the Indian women diving for food as before.

Thursday the 2d, last night the store-tent was broke open, and robb’d of a great deal of flour.

Monday the 6th, hard gales of wind, with showers of rain and hail, came ashore from the ship one cask of beef, with several of the lower-deck carlings, and plank of the upper and lower-deck beams, and, what was reckon’d very odd, the cabin-bell came ashore, without its being fasten’d to any wood, or any one thing of the ship near it.

Tuesday the 7th, hard gales of wind, with hail, rain, and lightning:  The Indian women went out as usual in their canoes to dive for sea-eggs, and brought ashore abundance of ’em; they jump overboard out of their canoe about a mile from shore, they take the handle of their baskets, which I have already described, between their teeth, diving five or six fathom water; their agility in diving, and their continuance under water for so long a time as they generally do, will be thought impossible by persons who have not been eye-witnesses of it; they seem as amphibious to us as seals and alligators, and rarely make use of any provisions but what they get out of the sea.

Wednesday the 8th, launch’d the yawl and went on board, saw several casks, some of meat, and some of liquor, the decks and sides abaft drove out, and entirely gone, the larboard-side abaft drove on shore; about two miles and a half from the tent a cask of liquor was found, and broach’d by the person who found it, which was allow’d to be a great fault; he likewise broach’d a cask of meat, which should have been preserv’d to carry away with us.