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efforts was the discovery of a hitherto unknown sparrow, which was 
named by Audubon, Lincoln’s Finch, after Tom Lincoln who 
brought it down with his fowling-piece. 
At Natashquan, Audubon saw the Montagnais Indians, who had 
just come out of the interior for their annual trading at the Hud- 
son’s Bay Company’s Post. He also met Captain Bayfield of the 
Gulnare, who was laboriously mapping the coast and whose chart, 
far from perfect, is the one on which the charts of today are based. 
Delayed by repeated storms, it was not until June 28th that the 
Ripley, cleared from Natashquan, touched at the islands near Old 
Romaine crowded with breeding water-birds, and came to anchor 
in the wild and desolate harbor of Wapitagun. After a study of the 
great bird rookeries of this region, the Ripley took to sea and, by 
good chance, stumbled into that wonderful rock-enclosed harbor 
at Little Mecattina Island, now known as Hare Harbor. The 
ruggedness of the rocky hills, the arctic character of the vegeta- 
tion, the presence of snow banks and the frequency of gales and 
cold rain storms, chilled the southern blood of Audubon, who sighed 
for the genial climate of his native Louisiana. Yet he persevered 
in his work of adding to our knowledge of the little known northern 
birds, often spending eighteen hours a day at the drawing table. 
Cold and wet, assailed by vicious mosquitoes and flies, sometimes 
homesick, often seasick, worn out by his long hours of labor, he 
exclaimed, “I am no longer young!”” His worst handicap, how- 
ever, was the pilot that was taken in by Captain Emery to guide 
them in this intricate coast. This man was so ignorant of the 
region that he was unable to sail through the many safe and quiet 
waterways among the islands, but put to sea between each harbor 
and subjected the whole company to all the perils and discomforts 
of the stormy Gulf. . 
_ From Little Mecattina, they sailed to Baie de Portage, now 
known by the more prosaic name of Mutton Bay. From here, 
Audubon visited in a small boat, a trapper and trader at Mecat- 
tina Harbor, Pierre Micheaux by name, as well as Samuel Robert- 
son at Sparr Point. 
Setting sail on July 26, he hoped to call at “Chevalier’s Settle- 
ment” at the mouth of the St. Paul River, but unfavorable winds, 
stormy seas and the ignorance of the “ass of a pilot” prevented, 
