280 THIRD TRIP TO LABRADOR. 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



Third voyage; summer of '82 — Puffin-shooting — Dredging — Bad weather 

 — Main boom breaks — Chateau and Temple bays — Places of interest — 

 Mines and minerals — Aurora and phosphorescence — Icebergs — Fox 

 harbor — Battle island — Indians and Esquimaux — Indian vocabulary — 

 Square island — Dead island — A water garden — Triangle harbor — 

 Homeward bound — Notes on Dutch and Esquimaux settlements. 



I HAVE nowneared the end of my explorations. Yet, strange to say, 

 I find myself once more embarked upon the perilous enterprise 

 of again stemming the sea and stormy Gulf of St. Lawrence for a 

 further extension of my researches upon the Labrador coast. This 

 time I start from Boston, July 13, 1882, in a small schooner of 

 about one hundred tons, the " Polar Star" by name, with a party 

 of some dozen gentlemen, young and old, who, with me, are also 

 bound for this bleak and rocky, yet picturesque coast. The party 

 consists of ornithologists and mineralogists, conchologists and 

 ichthyologists, photographists and pleasurists. All in an ainateicr 

 sense however, except possibly the pleasurists, and they might 

 almost be said to outweigh everything else and form the main 

 feature of the party. In fact it was a pleasure party and nothing 

 else, of which guns, ammunition, and fishing tackle formed the chief 

 topics of conversation from the time we left until we returned. 



I will not stop to describe our journey to Halifax where we pro- 

 cured a relay of supplies for our voyage ; or of our stop on the 

 Cape Breton shores, at several points of interest ; or our journey 

 through Canso to the stormy Gulf of St. Lawrence, where, after 

 passing the famous Bird Rocks near the Magdalene Islands, just 



