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Mr James Cameron Island May 24th 1873

the Queens Birth Day Firing Planting

25th

26th Fixing Fence

27th at the Fence at the East End of the Barn Found a Bun

28th Planted the Beans Trowling Got a Pike

29th Royal Oak Day Barked a chair

30th cleaning the chips from around the Door

31st cutting Brush setting Fires very cold nights

1st of June Whit Sunday

2nd Went to Na Houtas Island the Wind Raised

3rd Went to Christees Island and Na Houtas I

4th Barking chairs started for the Post Office turned Back Wind and Rain

5th crofsed 4 Raftsmen from the Hay Island Gave me a Dollar as they had no more and hard work to have that Bought of Vipond 3 Bunches of Lines Hooks 3/4 of Tea Tobacco Black Thread Matches Pipes Got a Letter 2 Papers Mrs Carey sent sweetys to the children came Back Went for the 2 Men Left on the Raft took them up to Get something to Eat as they must be Prety Hungry went Down with them to their Raft and it started while they were at their Dinner and it was almost at the Floating Light when we caught it could not Pay me nor Give me an axe or an auger to show what I had Done for them Heavy Rain haild and thunder Magnet went Down

6th Barking chair Planting Potatoes caught a Dram over Below Christees

7th Raftmen here for the Dram Paid me Gave me 4 Dollars

8th Trinity Sunday Peggy Bosell Georges Wife and children here Alexand Grant Boo) Departed Livinia and I and all the children Went Down to the Kit Kit Island a very fine Day

9th Our Mary's Birth Day crofsed to Summerstown Bought Flour Hat cotton Thread eggs Brown Ribbon Went Down to Kenneths Thomas Munroe and I and put the Dead close on A Grant Got a Rooster from W Spink

10th Put a hent to Hatch

11th Making a Pen for Pigs I am to Get from George Bosell Weeding Potatoes

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Mr James Cameron Island June 12th 1873

Corpus Christee or Big Sunday with the Indians) very unwell in Bed all Day

13th Gordon Randolph Little Livinia and I went to Squaw Butternut Blacksnake Lizard and Gull Islands Alexander Smallman stopt here to night him and his man Trowling Gave the children 50 cents

14th Great smoke from the East seen a Dram Going Down near Charlies went for it and caught it staked it and it was a hard Job came Back Went to Bosells for the Pigs Got 2 Hoeing Potatoes

15th Raining Warm East and West Wind Went to meet Calvins men to tell them about the Dram they had no Money had a Big shallop with the men Magnet on the stearn Big Sunday

16th Weeding the Garden

17th Cutting Brush in the Pond Below the House

18th The ever Memorable Battle of Waterloo went to the PO Took Dinner at Henery Bosells and had sturgeon the First I East this spring Mr Crippin here tonight and Galerneau with him Left me the Peice of Pine that he mistook for a Heavy Lunge

19th caught a Pine stick that one end of it was Broke off Washing the Wool caught a very heavy Gale of wind Gordon Randolph and I at Christees Island crofsed to Alexis Island Made Fire thought near night it was Best to crofs so we did and had all we could do

20th 21st

22nd our Dans Birth Day

23rd Fixing the Wool Weighing it

24th The Canadian Festival Went to Fort Covington and Dundee Got 2 Sacks of Flour on an crosk From the Miller 4 Dollars American Money I Forget how Many of lbs of Wool I had a I think it was 30 cents a lb Robert allowed me X

25th George Renshaw came Down with Pat

26th I and Pat crofsed to Summerstown Brought over Thomas Munroe half of the Wool Bought 1/2 lb Tea Basket Cornmeal 1/2 Gallon H Wines

27th at the Potatoes Fixing the Boat

28th I crofsed to Summerstown Bought of T Summers 3 qt of HW

29th Pat Gordon and I went to Charlies and Rofs's Island Took our Dinner on the Big Stone at the BAck of Charlies Island

1111 There was a Waterspout or Whirlwind