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AUDUBON'S LABRADOR TRIP OF 1833. 



BY RUTHVEN DEANE. 



For many reasons I think that this expedition has been generally 

 regarded as one of the most memorable of the many Audubon so 

 successfully accomplished. Much valuable work was done, con- 

 sidering the many hardships endured, the long fatiguing hours 

 necessary to complete his drawings, made under most unfavorable 

 conditions, and the natural responsibility of the five young men who 

 accompanied him. All these details we have read and reread for 

 so many years in that most attractive episode 'Labrador V ^nd later 

 'The Labrador Journal' - which records the daily events between 

 the departure from Eastport, Maine, on the schooner 'Ripley,' 

 in command of Captain Emery ,^ on June 6, 1833, and the saft 

 return to the same port on August 31, 1833. 



Audubon's party consisted of his son John Woodhouse Audubon,* 

 William Ligalls ^ and George C. Shattuck ^ of Boston, Thomas 

 Lincoln ^ of Dennisville, Maine, and Joseph A. Coolidge ^ of East- 

 port, Maine, all young men between eighteen and twenty-one years 

 of age. None of them had had any sea-faring experience except 

 young Coolidge, whose father had charge of a revenue-cutter and 

 had taken Audubon to various islands on the Maine coast in quest 

 of birds. 



In 1903, Dr. AVilliam Ingalls was the only surviving member of 

 this party. Having incidentally learned that he was still living, not 

 only did I have the pleasure of a delightful correspondence, but a 

 still greater satisfaction of visiting with him at his home in Roxbury, 

 Mass., in July, 1903, only five months previous to his death. ^1- 



1 Orn. Biogr., Vol. Ill, p. 584. 



2 'Audubon and his Journals,' 1897, Vol. I, p. 349. 



3 While I have been unable to trace anything definite regarding Capt. Emery, 

 it has been reported that he afterwards was in command of an ocean liner and later 

 died insane. (R. D.) 



* Born, Henderson, Ky., Nov. 30, 1812; died, New York, Feb. 21, 1862. 

 s Born, Boston, Mass., Jan. 5, 1813; died, Roxbury, Mass., Dec. 1, 1903. 



6 Born, Boston, Mass., July 23, 1813; died Boston, Mass., March 22, 1893. 



7 Born Dennisville, Maine, March 27, 1812; died, March 27, 1883. 



8 Born, Maine, 1815; died, San Francisco, Cal., July 30, 1901. 



