48 Deane, Audubon's Labrador Trip of 1833. \j^^ 



good fellow. John W. Audubon, always good natured, he and his 

 papa the best of (boyish) friends, cheering us sometimes with his 

 violin. I have spoken of the Captain whom we all honored for his 

 skill and his evident desire to help the expedition. And now let me 

 repeat a truth which was uttered by Mr. Audubon. "Brought 

 together, strangers, three months in a small ship, we can say there 

 was not a word or spirit of an unpleasant nature in all that time," 

 and permit me to say that cornmeal bread made by a good cook 



with sea birds eggs is fit for Yum-Yum!!. Excuse 



me, I am nothing but a boy. 



Were you ever anywhere in company with black flies ? Well, 

 don't seek them, unless you wish to get a large number of them to 

 put in a bottle of alcohol. Geoi'ge Shattuck came on board one 

 afternoon, face and neck a mass* of bites. The black flies are 

 beastly and can easily draw one on to suicide. 



If I have added anything about our trip to Labrador to that 

 which you have read or can read, I shall be much pleased. Having 

 left Labrador Ave crossed over to St. George's Bay, Newfoundland, 

 and we saw some fine Newfoundland dogs, one of which was very 

 large, tawney and so fierce that they kept him chained. We were 

 honored by an invitation to a ball,^ to which we went. To say we 

 had a good jolly time, dancing reels and country dances, — no 

 minuet; we danced. There were girls at the ball, some of them 

 were pretty and all were jolly and good. We started for the ship 

 at a proper hour in a fog, towards morning, but we found the ship 

 'all's well.' The home-coming is well described by Mr. Audubon. 

 Of course each one of us used his own eyes and other senses. I 

 think I had better stop here, lest I prove myself a bore. I cannot 

 realize that seventy years have passed since we were together on 

 that truly-wonderful shore. 

 Accept my best wishes, 



* William Ingalls,' M. D. 



1 "A Ball in Newfoundland" (episode), Orn. Biogr., Vol. 11, p. 211. 



2 Dr. William Ingalls was born Jan. 5, 1813, at No. 4 School St., Boston, Mass. 

 He attended the old Latin School, which stood on School street, on a portion of the 

 site occupied by the Parker House. He was graduated at the Harvard Medical 

 School in 1836 and began the practice of medicine in this city, but after two years 

 removed to Louisiana, and remained there eight years. Returning to Massachusetts 

 he settled in Winchester. In 1862 he entered the Army as a surgeon, and served with 



