Wednesday, 6th July.

fore part strong S E gale and very rugd boats returned no news of our boat sent a boat up the bay with 2 natives page 449 across land to see if they could discover any thing returned at night with no intelligence the latest account we can get is derived from the second mate of the Vermont who saw him about 12 yesterday off fighting Bay the second mate of the ship Saml Robinson also saw him down near this place can only hope that he is landed somewhere and detained by the Bad Weather Latter part heavy sea sent out 3 boats took a resident here and went up the head of the bay^* to cross to the Sound† to inquire for our absent boat's crew