A LABRADOR SPRING 



strengthened by split birch saplings interwoven 

 at right angles. These last two forms of dwelling 

 were covered with canvas, I saw none 

 covered with skins or birch bark. Nearly all 

 contained small oblong sheet-iron stoves with 

 tiny stove-pipes that emerged between the 

 sticks at the top of the wigwam. Much of their 

 cooking seemed to be done at fires outside, 

 where a large pot was to be seen hanging from a 

 wooden bar between two poles. 



These friends of mine, these " savages " at 

 the Isles of the Crow, were not mercenary, they 

 had nothing to sell, but having completed the 

 labours of the year in the interior in trapping for 

 furs, and having sold the products to the 

 traders, they were, like ladies and gentlemen, 

 travelling about visiting their friends and 

 spending their summer's vacation at the 

 sea-side. Later they would attend religious 

 services. 



That they were making disastrous inroads on 

 the sea-birds, and contributing to their ex- 

 termination, there was no doubt, but it must 

 be remembered that before the arrival of the 

 whites, when the Indians were in larger numbers 

 along this coast, the sea-birds easily held their 



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