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utensils, which are the best of our collections, for the World's 

 Fair and the Bowdoin museums. 



After spending these five pleasant and profitable days at 

 Hopedale, and regretfully looking out by Cape Harrigan, to 

 Nain, whose gardens are the seventh wonder of Labrador, 

 through which, reports say, one can walk for two miles, and 

 whose missionaries, warned of our coming, were making ready 

 to give us a warm reception ; and near it Paul's Island, on which 

 was so much of interest to our party; all this we thought of 

 mournfully as our vessel's head was pointed southward and we 

 sped along,, reluctant on this account, and yet eager to hear of 

 the success of our boldest undertaking, the Grand River explor- 

 ation party. 



At Aillik, where there is an abandoned Hudson Bay Co.'s 

 post, we measured a few more Eskimo, obtained a kyak, which 

 a day or two later nearly became a cofHn to one of our party, 

 and tried a trout stream that proved the best we found in Lab- 

 rador. In about an hour, three of our party caught over eighty 

 magnificent trout, and, naturally, returned much elated. 



The next day we poked the Julia's inquisitive nose into one 

 or two so-called but misnamed harbors that afforded very little 

 shelter, and had a threatening and deserted look which, although 

 the characteristic of the Labrador shore in general, has never 

 been noticeable in the harbors we have visited. Many of them 

 are very small, and in some it is necessary to lay quite close to 

 the rocks, but yet we have had no trouble from the extremely 

 deep water that we were told we should have to anchor in, nor 

 yet from getting into harbors so small that it was hard to get 

 out of them. 



As a matter of fact, experience has taught the fishermen to 

 use " tickles," as narrow passages are called, for harbors, that 

 there may always be a windward and a leeward entrance. In a 

 few cases where the harbor is too small to beat out of, and has 

 no leeward entrance, we have found heavy ring bolts fastened 

 into proper places in the cliffs, to which vessels can make their 

 lines fast, and warp themselves into weatherly position from 

 which a course can be laid out of the harbor. 



