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to have tracked us across the bay ( Forteau Bay I mean ) on 

 the ice by the blood alone from the dogs' feet. We had six dogs in 

 our team, three full grown and three young ones. As there were not 

 enough shoes for all of them even when we started, and as we had 

 not been able to procure a sealskin or any canvas to make others 

 to replace those already worn out, by this time most of the dogs 

 had one or two shoes only, while one had none. We had driven 

 him without any all this distance, nearly twenty miles, because hav- 

 ing a full set of four nice shoes, he had turned to and pulled them 

 off with his teeth and eaten them up at our last stopping place, and 

 his punishment was tying his mouth up tightly and driving him as I 

 have said. This fellow bled from all his feet, and nearly all the others 

 showed drops of blood in each footprint ; but there was no help for 

 it, and so we kept on as well as possible until our destination was 

 reached. 



Forteau Bay is the first bay of any importance on the Labrador 

 peninsula, and though the principal port on this part of the coast 

 is Red Bay, twenty-two or twenty-three miles farther east, the 

 former is not without its objects of general interest. Each side 

 of the bay is hned with buildings, — houses, shops, and fishing 

 store-houses — to the number of some twenty or thirty. On the 

 eastern side of the bay a neat little church, well built and painted 

 white, rears a small but homely looking, short, square steeple with a 

 small spire upon it against the dark background of the ridge 

 beyond ; by its side stands a tastily built parsonage, silently awaiting 

 occupancy by some quiet and practical Christian people whose 

 "charity shall begin at" this their village "home," and end there also, 

 which, wisely administered, "shall cover" for the people "a multitude 

 of sins." And truly the people here need such a family, for they 

 are sadly deficient in intellectual ideas, neighborly charity in little 

 things, and personal virtues, though there are many exceptionally 

 fine families among these plain, rough, good-hearted people. 



It was just about dusk when we reached our destination on the 

 extremity of L'Anse Amour, and being Saturday night we looked 

 for a quiet rest on the following Sunday, both for ourselves and 



