2 BOWDOIN BOYS IN LABRADOR 



They hold a grand festival in a few weeks somewhere on the 

 shore of Brasd'Or Lake, at which nearly every Indian on the 

 Island is expected, some two thousand in all, we are informed, 

 and after experiencing our good-fellowship at their camp and 

 on board they invited us one and all to come down, only cau- 

 tioning us to bring along a present of whiskey for the chief. 



The Gut, in this part at least, is beautiful sailing ground, 

 with bold, wooded shores, varied by slight coves and valleys 

 with little hamlets at the shore and fishermen's boats lying off 

 the beach. The lower part we passed in a fog, so we are ig- 

 norant of its appearance as though the Julia had not carried us 

 within a hundred miles of it, instead of having knowingly 

 brought us past rock and shoal to this quiet cove, under the 

 red rays of the light on Hawkesbury Point, and opposite Port 

 Mulgrave, with which Hawkesbury is connected by a little two- 

 sailed, double-ended ferry-boat built on a somewhat famous 

 model. It seems that a boat builder of this place, who, by the 

 way, launched a pretty little yacht to-day, sent a fishing boat, 

 whose model and rig was the product of many years' experi- 

 ence as a fisherman, to the London Fisheries' Exhibit of a few 

 years past, and received first medal from among seven thou- 

 sand five hundred competitors. The Prince of Wales was so 

 pleased with the boat, which was exhibited under full sail with 

 a wax fisherman at the helm, that he purchased it and has 

 since used it. Later, when the United States fish commission 

 schooner Grampus was here with the present assistant com- 

 missioner, Capt. Collins, in command, the plans were pur- 

 chased by our government on the condition that no copies 

 were to be made without Mr. Embree's consent. A little later 

 yet, a commissioner from Holland and Sweden came over, 

 bought the plans and built a perfect copy of the original, the 

 seaworthy qualities of which has caused its type to entirely 

 displace the old style of small fishing boats in those countries- 

 The boat's abilities in heavy waters have been tested many 

 times, and have never failed to equal her reputation. 



But, meanwhile, the Julia lies quietly at anchor, as if it were 



