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Audubon to his Wife. 



Great Macatina Harbour, coast of 

 Labrador. Latitude 50°, 43^ 

 Longitude 59°, 15' Greenwich, 

 called on the charts, Bay de 

 Portage, July, 23d, INIonday after- 

 noon, 1833. Thermometor, 58°. 

 My Dearest Friends, 



The schooner 'Angelica' which sails tomorrow from this 

 place for Quebec will take this letter there and I hope most sincerely 

 that in less than three weeks it will have reached thee, found thee 

 well and happy and the whole of those who feel any interest in us. 

 Our voyage from Eastport was as prosperous a one as we could 

 possibly have wished for, in eleven days we landed on this coast 

 and visited the island of Magdelaine and others in the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence previously. We first landed on this coast at a place 

 called on the charts, Mount Joly or American Harbour, where we 

 Found seven American Cod fishermens vessels and 2 from Nova 

 Scotia, a few days afterwards H. M. Schooner "Gulnare" ^ came 

 in and anchored near us. This vessel being now employed in the 

 coast survey of this coast is commanded by men of science, and 



the Fifth Massachusetts Regiment nine months and then in the Fifty-Ninth Massa- 

 chusetts until 1865. For more than twenty-flve years he had his office at 556 Tremont 

 Street, and from 1870 until 1885 was surgeon in the City Hospital, Dr. Ingalls 

 was a Mason and Odd Fellow. He was a member of the Massachusetts Medical 

 Society, the Obstetrical Society and other organizations of physicians and surgeons. 

 He died in Roxbury, Mass., Dec. 1, 1903. 



1 Capt. Henry Wolsey Bayfield, R. N., born Jan. 21, 1795; died with the rank 

 of Admiral, Feb. 10, 1885. He was employed under the British Admiralty from 

 1815 to 1856. As a mark of approval he was appointed in 1827 by the Lord High 

 Admiral, the Duke of Clarence, to survey the St. Lawrence River and continued until 

 Oct. 21, 1856, when he attained the rank of Rear- Admiral. He was a resident of 

 Quebec from 1827 to 1841, and was an original member of the Literary and Historical 

 Society of Quebec, and corresponding member of the Natural History Society of 

 Montreal. During a recent visit in Quebec, I liad the pleasure of an interview with 

 Capt. J. G. Boulton, R. N., who has had in his possession the original journals of 

 the late Admiral Bayfield, and I am under many obhgations for the following account 

 of Bayfield's meeting with Audubon when on the 'Ripley' off the Labrador coast. 



" Little Natashquan Harbor, June 24, 1833. Mr. Audubon, the naturalist, we 

 found here on the American schooner ' Ripley ' with several young men, two of them 

 medical students. Mr. Audubon has come principally to study the habits of the 

 water fowl, with which the coast of Labrador abounds, and to make drawings of 

 them for his splendid work on the birds of America. We found him a very superior 



