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138 TownsENnD, In Audubon’s Labrador. 
Church, presided over by two Eudist fathers, Pére Garniér, and 
Pére Gallix, whose hospitality and interesting converse I greatly 
enjoyed. 
On July 7, the wind was favorable and we set sail in the Sea Star. 
She was but forty feet long and seventeen tons burden, while 
Audubon’s Ripley was over a hundred feet long and a hundred and 
six tons burden. The small size of our boat gave us an advantage, 
however, and we were most fortunate in our Captain, A. Edmond 
Joncas, a charming and interesting man and one who had navigated 
these intricate waters for over forty years and knew them as only 
one to the manner born could know them — for the charts are all 
but useless. I had brought with me a copy of Audubon’s “ Labra- 
dor Journal,’ which he read with great interest and not only recog- 
nized all the harbors mentioned but knew the descendants of the 
very people that Audubon met. We were indeed fortunate in our 
pilot, far more fortunate than Audubon. 
From Natashquan to Grand Romaine, a distance of over fifty 
miles, is the only exposed strip on the coast, unprotected by islands, 
and we experienced the full sweep and heave of the stormy Gulf. 
We anchored that night at Grand Romaine, and at once visited 
the Indian encampment at the Hudson’s Bay Post, where we were 
greeted by an outrush of Indian dogs, while the Indians, on the 
contrary, disappeared within their tents. By the judicious use of 
plug tobacco and by the aid of an interpreter, I was able to get some 
photographs of this interesting and picturesque people. The men 
wear their black hair cropt straight around their necks, while the 
women tie theirs up in hard round knots over their ears. Both 
sexes wear colored handkerchiefs about their necks and brilliantly 
variegated stockings, and mocassins or skin boots. The headgear 
of the women is made of red and black broadcloth, shaped like a 
classical liberty cap, with an embroidered band. Many of the 
younger men and women are handsome, with clear olive complex- 
ions and clean-cut features. 
The view over the valley of the Romaine River with its thickly 
crowded spruce forest to the barrens or tundra, dotted with lakes 
and lakelets beyond, and the distant range of low mountains, is a 
characteristic ‘one of this region. Black-poll Warblers were com- 
mon in the stunted thickets, a brood of Golden-eye Ducks was dis- 
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