NATURAL FEATURES 13 



Cartwright (1786) adds a list of his own of indi- 

 genous vegetable delicacies 



1. Young osier leaves. 



2. Red dock leaves. 



3. Scurvy grass. 



4. Alexander, or wild celery. 



5. Indian salad. 



6. Alpine plant. 



7. Fathen. 



There is a charming catholicity about this old sea- 

 dog and trapper. 



The tips of the young spruce branches are used 

 for making a non-intoxicating beer, being boiled 

 with molasses. When other tea gives out, the leaves 

 of uva ursi are used. These are known as Labrador 

 tea. 



The Saga of Lief Erikson thus describes a conver- 

 sation between the Viking and his old henchman 

 Tyrker, who, for two or three days, had wandered 

 from the party: "Why wert thou so late, my fos- 

 terer, and separated from the party?" "I have not 

 been much further off, but still I have something- 

 new to tell of: I found grapes and vines." "But is 

 that true, my fosterer?" quoth Lief. "Surely is it 

 true,' ; replied he ; " for I was bred up where there 

 is no want of either vines or grapes." They said 

 that next day they filled their long boat with grapes. 

 But we must, I fear, consider this a " traveller's 

 licence," as we must also when old Richard Whit- 

 bourne describes the wild berries of Newfoundland. 

 " There the summer naturally produceth out of the 



