Capt. _Goff_ came this Year in Hopes to recover the People who were missing with the Boat, and to make a further Essay as to the Trade, but brought no Settlers with him, intended immediately for the Coast, which he could not attain to on Account of the Ice, and went to _Trinity_ Bay in _Newfoundland_, where he staid some Time. Sailed from thence the 27th of _June_; the 2d of _July_ saw _French_ Ships in the Streights of _Belle Isle_, retarded by the Ice; and the 9th of _July_ joined Capt. _Taylor_ in a Sloop of about 35 Tons, fitted out from _Rhode Island_ to go in Pursuit of a _North-west Passage_; and if not successful to come down on the Coast of _Labrador_. Capt. _Goff_ said he had learned by Capt. _Taylor_ that the _Philadelphia_ Schooner would be out, and he should have suspected this to be her, but she entered the Inlet so readily, and came up with that Boldness as could not but think that the Schooner was a _French_ Vessel acquainted with the Coast; and he had received Orders to avoid any Harbour in which a _French_ Ship should appear. Capt. _Taylor_ had seen a large _French_ Sloop in Latitude 53, and to the Northward three hundred _Eskemaux_, who had nothing to trade but their old Cloaths, and who were going further to Northward, but were hindered by the Ice. Capt. _Goff_ and _Taylor_, who had entered into an Agreement to associate, were eight Days grappled to the Ice, and did not arrive at _Nesbit_'s Harbour until the 20th of _July_. But had traded with some of the _Eskemaux_ before, though for small Matters, and had some of these _Eskemaux_ aboard for three successive Days, who then left them, and came no more aboard the Vessels. Capt. _Goff_ suspected, though he had altered his Dress, that they had then recollected him. The 1st of _August_ they sailed from _Nesbit_'s Harbour, and attained to this Inlet where he now was; and on the 11th sailed to the Northward, when Capt. _Taylor_ left him; and on the 25th returned here again. That the Smoke which the Persons saw on the Island when they travelled over Land, and which the Schooner passed that Day, was made by his Order, but that he had not made any other Smoke, and this was for a Direction for his Longboat, gone to the Northward to trade, and to signify to Capt. _Taylor_ his being in the Harbour, whose Return he expected.