4 BOWDOIN BOYS IN LABRADOR 



Our little Julia rewarded our action of the night previous by 

 taking us out by Mt Desert Rock at a rattling pace Monday 

 morning, bowing very sharply and very often to the spindle- 

 like tower on the rock, as she met the Bay of Fundy chop, 

 and at the same time administered a very effective emetic to 

 all but five or six of the Bowdoin boys aboard. She is wise as 

 well as bold and strong, and so after nightfall waited under 

 easy canvas for light to reveal Seal Island to our watchful eyes. 

 Shortly after daylight the low coast was made out, the dan- 

 gerous rocks passed, and Cape Sable well on our quarter. But 

 there it stayed. We made but little progress for two days, and 

 employed the time in laying in a supply of cod, haddock and 

 pollock, till our bait was exhausted. Then we shot at birds, 

 seals and porpoises whenever they were in sight, and from the 

 success, apparently, at many when they were not in sight ; put 

 the finishing touches on our stowage, and kept three of the 

 party constantly employed with our long bamboo-handled dip- 

 net, in fishing up specimens for the professor and his assist- 

 ants. As the result of this we have a large number of fish 

 eggs which we are watching in the process of hatching, many 

 specimens of Crustacea and of seaweed. The photographers, 

 in the meanwhile, got themselves into readiness for real work 

 by practicing incessantly upon us. 



Thursday, we made Sambro light; soon pilot boat number 

 one hailed us and put a man aboard, whom we neither needed 

 nor wanted, and we were anchored off the market steps at 

 Halifax. The run up the harbor was very pleasant. Bright 

 skies, a fresh breeze off the land, and vessels all about us made 

 many lively marine pictures. The rather unformidable appear- 

 ing fortification, ' 4 on account of which Halifax boasts herself the 

 most strongly fortified city of America, together with the flag- 

 ship Bellerophon and two other vessels of the Atlantic squad- 

 ron, the Canada and the Thrush, the latter vessel until lately 

 having been commanded by Prince George, gave the harbor 

 and town a martial tone that was heightened upon our going 

 ashore and seeing the red coats that throng the streets in the 



