CHAPTER VI 



THREE MODERN CARTWRIGHTS 



" In such like Toils and Sports, the Year goes round, 

 And for each day, some Work or Pleasure's found." 



Cartwright. 



TN the latter part of the eighteenth cen- 

 * tury an adventurous Englishman spent 

 sixteen years on the bleak eastern Labrador 

 coast engaged in fishing, trapping and hunting, 

 and in trading with the aborigines. Captain 

 Cartwright 's Journal, originally published in 

 1793, shows the evident joy of the man in his 

 rugged life on those shores, and his appreciation 

 of its attractions, notwithstanding the severity 

 of its climate and its loneliness. Although, as 

 a younger son in an old family of depleted 

 fortunes, his ostensible object was the accumula- 

 tion of money, it is evident that the spirit of 

 sport and adventure, and not the desire to 

 amass a fortune, was his guiding star. Origi- 

 nally possessed of independence of character, 



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