The Capelin and Mackeral will not be launched until the middle of next month and I fear will not be ready to proceed to Newfoundland this winter.

There being no iron ballast sent out for the schooners is of great inconvenience and the Navy Board have positively forbid any being purchased.

The schooners being very buoyant obliges us to fill the hold with stone and carry all the water and provisions between decks so that the men have very little room.

[3] In 1808 she was under the command of Samuel W. Sprott,[3] and in that year and the next she sailed twice for the Bay of Exploits in two unsuccessful attempts to make contact with the Beothuk people.

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