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outlined another. At twelve the wind suddenly changed, 

 and caused such a swell and rolling of the vessel, that I 

 had to give up my drawing. After dinner the wind 

 hauled to the south-west, and all was bustle, heaving up 

 anchor, loosing sails, and getting ready for sea. We 

 were soon under weight and went out of the harbor in 

 good style ; but the sea was high, and we were glad to go 

 to our beds. 



" June 29. At three o'clock this morning we were 

 about fifteen miles from land, and fifty from American 

 Harbor. The thermometer was 54, and the wind light 

 and favorable ; at ten the breeze freshened, but our pilot 

 did not know the land, and the captain had to find a har- 

 bor for himself. We passed near an island covered with 

 foolish guillemots, and came to for the purpose of landing 

 on it, which we did through a great surf; there we found 

 two eggers searching the rocks for eggs. They told us 

 they visited all the islands in the vicinity, and obtained 

 fresh eggs every day. They had eight hundred dozen, 

 and expected to increase them to two thousand dozen 

 before they returned to Halifax. The quantities of bro- 

 ken eggs on this and all the islands where eggs are 

 obtained, causes a stench which is scarcely endurable. 

 From this island we went to another about a mile distant, 

 and caught many birds and collected many eggs. 



" June 30. I have drawn three birds to-day since eight 

 o'clock. Thermometer 50. 



" July i. The thermometer 48, and the weather so 

 cold that it has been painful for me to draw, but I worked 

 all day. 



" July 2. A beautiful day for Labrador. Went ashore 

 and killed nothing, but was pleased with what I saw. 

 The country is so grandly wild and desolate, that I ana 

 charmed by its wonderful dreariness. Its mossy gray- 

 ed rocks, heaped and thrown together in huge masses, 



