SOME LABRADOR RIVERS 



hot in the frying-pan, a kindly provision of 

 circumstances which forcibly, and at times 

 painfully, checks too much haste, we were able 

 to eat our cake as well as to keep it, for we 

 partook of a Labrador spruce partridge whose 

 skin we preserved as a specimen, and topped 

 off oh ! ye gods with what we were pleased 

 to call chocolate ice cream a mixture of 

 scraped sweet chocolate and snow. 



As we returned over the tundra a sudden cold 

 wind swept down on us from the north bearing 

 with it a few drops of rain. Four geese flew 

 low against the blast, and, setting their wings, 

 alighted on the margin of a lakelet, where they 

 kept up a continuous conversational honking. 

 Two great black-backed gulls soared over head, 

 and the roar of the river was intensified in the 

 gusts. Gaining the first forested ridge, we 

 looked back to the mocking mountains which 

 appeared nearer than ever, as the north wind 

 had cleared the atmosphere. As we approached 

 our little village at the end of the day, we were 

 so fortunate as to see a pair of marsh hawks, 

 sailing over a bog, a bird that was recorded by 

 Audubon from Labrador and by only one other 

 observer, for Stearns obtained a specimen there 



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