THREE MODERN CARTWRIGHTS 



his life in Labrador further developed it, as 

 such a life naturally would, and instead of 

 leading the trivial humdrum life of the average 

 sporting squire, which would probably have 

 been his lot if he had settled down at home, he 

 became a careful observer and an accurate 

 recorder of animal and vegetable nature, a 

 skilful leader of men, and just in all his relations 

 with them, notably so in his relations with the 

 savages, both Eskimo and Indian, an in- 

 teresting figure indeed in the early days of the 

 Labrador coast. 



This same joy of living in remote parts, away 

 from the conventional life of the cities, this 

 same love of a wild life with all its hardships 

 and struggles, is still an attribute of humanity 

 not difficult to find. The conventional city 

 life has been of very recent advent in the his- 

 tory of the human race; it is a mere speck in 

 his inheritance of the past, and we all tend to 

 revert to the savage. The man who does not is 

 sincerely to be pitied; he does not know the 

 full joy of living. 



Three friends that I made on this Labrador 

 coast each suggested in his own way my old 

 friend Cartwright. The first was a New Eng- 



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