CHAPTER II 



FROM SEVEN ISLANDS TO ESQUIMAUX POINT 



" Backward and forward, along the shore 

 Of lorn and desolate Labrador 

 And found at last her way 

 To the Seven Islands Bay." 



Whittier. 



most maps the name Labrador is at- 

 tached only to the narrow strip under 

 the jurisdiction of Newfoundland on the Atlan- 

 tic coast, yet it belongs in reality to the entire 

 peninsula which begins at the Gulf of St. Law- 

 rence at the point where the 5oth parallel 

 strikes the coast. A line drawn from this point 

 to the southern extremity of Hudson Bay, or 

 rather of its offshoot, James Bay, separates 

 the great peninsula from the rest of Canada. 

 This westernmost point of the Labrador coast 

 in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is about thirty 

 miles to the west of Seven Islands, and about 

 three hundred and fifty east of Quebec. 



As we approached the Labrador coast, after 



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