A LABRADOR SPRING 



boat " La Belle Marguerite," choosing the name 

 the more readily as one of my own also bore it. 



From Esquimaux Point we set sail in " La 

 Belle Marguerite " with a good breeze on May 

 25th, skirting the shore on the left and the 

 islands on the right, successively passing Es- 

 quimaux Island, Sea Cow Island, Charles 

 Island and Hunting Island, all of the Mingan 

 group. At times it seemed more like sailing in 

 inland lakes than in the sea. The second of 

 these islands just mentioned takes its name, 

 not from the sea-cow or manatee, but from 

 the walrus which formerly extended its range 

 from the arctic regions along this Labrador 

 coast, but is now never seen there except in 

 the most northern portions of Labrador. 



From Esquimaux Point a beach extends 

 eastward for twelve miles or more, backed by a 

 sand and clay cliff, brown and white and gray, 

 which increases in height towards the east- 

 wards, where it reaches an elevation of a hun- 

 dred and twenty-five feet. Here, as we after- 

 wards discovered, bank swallows had made 

 their nesting holes, and about sixty of these 

 little birds, uttering their rasping chirps, were 

 flying about. How they manage to dig their 



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