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they were but too glad to supply us. We soon bargained for un veau gras, a couple of porkers, potatoes, bread, butter, sallad, onions, beer, &c &c for which I give an idea of the prices of provisions in this part of Canada. We paid not quite 12" including the Calf 10s word 3"6 each. We also purchased a dish of strawberries for the ladies on board. After having consumed a prodigious quantity of soft tack and &c and seen all the lions of the place over which (by the way) we were ciceroned by the mate of a vessel which had been wrecked on the reef off the town, and who had been hanging on during the winter in charge of the hulk, which he expected to get off & up to Quebec for repairs by the middle of the month. He gave us a good account of the hospitality & sociability