246 CENSUS — FOWLS. 



farther, where there reside seven families. We continued our 

 journey three and one-half miles to L'Anse Loup where we found 

 eight families residing ; from the bottom of L'Anse Loup Bay to 

 Schooner Cove, the property of a merchant from Newfoundland a 

 Mr. Watson by name, the distance is a mile and three quarters ; 

 and from here to the lighthouse, at Point Amour, two and one- 

 half miles farther. We did not anchor at either Capsan Island or 

 L'xA.nse Diable, since there is no good ground to anchor there, and 

 vessels generally remain either farther up or down the coast, while 

 the travel is in small boats between these two places. Thus from 

 Red Bay to Point Amour, a distance of about twenty-six miles, 

 following a straight line from settlement to settlement, there live 

 about eight families and four hundred people. 



The census from Pt. Amour to Blanc Sablon could be estimated 

 in about the same proportion, while the latter place is perhaps the 

 largest, with its surroundings of Wood and Greenley Island, east 

 of Esquimaux Point and Natashquan. Strange as it may appear, 

 nearly every family of this httle colony keeps fowls and domestic ani- 

 mals, and it is no unusual sight to see thirty or forty of the former 

 running about the settlements, the hens picking for food here and 

 there, and the cocks crowing continually. We were able to pur- 

 chase about eight or ten dozen fresh eggs for the nominal price of 

 a shilling (twenty cents) a dozen. We would willingly have paid 

 twice that amount. 



I will not stop to describe all the scenes along the coast here, 

 but will simply say that some of the places were gems of loveliness. 

 Some were backed by tablelands of sandstone, others were pecu- 

 liar formations of granite. Most of these places we had only time 

 to see from our vessel as we passed by them, yet they presented a 

 panorama of loveliness. When opposite Pirouette I could plainly 

 hear the pipings of the marsh frogs in the swamps of the river 

 beyond, and have no doubt but that, as one of the inhabitants 

 told me, they are very common there. Several of these places ap- 

 pear to have a formation much different from that of the country 

 around them, and I have no doubt but that most interesting results 



