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Sable Island 12th Sep.r 1857

Sir

I feel it my duty to acquaint the Government of the conduct of some of the fishermen who have visited this Island during the present season. They have robbed the West End house of fire works [&c?] and directions for the guidance of Shipwrecked persons, also of a crow bar, a pin-mall and two cold chisels left there by me, and have taken the Iron latch off the doors. They have cut and torn away the deck work of the wrecked ship Adonis and taken away her windlass gear, dead eyes &c &c. They have cut and taken away a Chain Cable the end of which I had cleared from the wreck of the Growler in February last and made fast on shore. They cut and carried away a warp one end of which was fast to the wrecked Schooner Vampire and the other end fast to her cable then lying some distance from the shore, and they robbed the wreck of Iron bands, deck lights &c, and took away some of her fish barrels, and at my residence they robbed eight copper thole-pins from a new boat that unfortunately got destroyed in the gale of the 26th Ult., and they robbed three copper thole-pins from another boat just at the time we were using her at bringing the Vampires materials, fish and salt across the lake, and they took
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