BOWDOIN BOYS IN LABRADOR. 



ON BOARD THE JULIA A. DECKER, 

 GUT OF CANSO. 



Bowdoin pluck has overcome Bowdoin luck, and though they 

 literally had to pass through fire and water, the Bowdoin men, 

 from the Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador 

 have done what Oxford failed to do, and what was declared well 

 nigh impossible by those best acquainted with the circumstan- 

 ces and presumably best judges of the matter. Austin Gary 

 and Dennis Cole, Bowdoin '87 and '88, respectively, have pro- 

 ven themselves worthy to be ranked as explorers, and have 

 demonstrated anew that energy and endurance are not wanting 

 in college graduates of this generation. 



A trip up a large and swift river, totally unknown to maps 

 in its upper portions, for three hundred miles, equal to the distance 

 from Brunswick, Me., to New York City, in open fifteen feet boats, 

 is of itself an achievement worthy of remark. But when to this 

 is added the discovery of Bowdoin Canon, one of the most re- 

 markable features of North America, the settlement of the 

 mystery of the Grand Falls, and the bringing to light of a navig- 

 able waterway extending for an unbroken' ninety miles, and 

 three hundred miles in the interior of an hitherto unknown 

 country, something more than remark is merited. 



July 26th the schooner hove to about four miles from the mouth 

 of the Grand River, the shoals rendering a nearer approach dan- 

 gerous, and the boats of the river detachment were sent over 

 the side, taken in tow by the yawl, and the start made on what 

 proved the most eventful part of the Labrador expedition. 

 Cheers and good wishes followed the three boats till out of 

 hearing, and then the Julia gathered way and headed for North 

 West River, while the party in the yawl with the two Rushtons 



