Amidst the causes of this mortality, excessive toil and a scarcity of food are not to be numbered, as the reader will easily conceive, when informed, that they have the same allowance of provisions as every officer and soldier in the garrison; and are indulged by being exempted from labour every Saturday afternoon and Sunday.

On the latter of those days they are expected to attend divine service, which is performed either within one of the storehouses, or under a great tree in the open air, until a church can be built.
Amidst our public labours, that no fortified post, or place of security, is yet begun, may be a matter of surprise.

Were an emergency in the night to happen, it is not easy to say what might not take place before troops, scattered about in an extensive encampment, could be formed, so as to act.

An event that happened a few evenings since may, perhaps, be the means of forwarding this necessary work.

In the dead of night the centinels on the eastern side of the cove were alarmed by the voices of the Indians, talking near their posts.