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east of Anticosti, we encountered one of the shortest but severest 

 gales that the captain had ever met, that nearly plunged our good 

 ship with its cargo of precious souls into the bosom of the raging 

 deep ; but we will pass at once to the sights and scenes which seem 

 of sufficient importance \o induce us to add a single chapter to our 

 already quite full account of the "men and things " seen and done 

 upon " the Labrador. " 



And now I find that we go over a great deal of the ground al- 

 ready gone over so fully and often at great length in our previous 

 pages. Our dozen pleasure seekers, however, gather a great many 

 new facts, yet we find that the daily life of the native inhabitants 

 does not differ essentially, as we progress east and north along the 

 coast, from such as we have already described it to be. The houses 

 grow smaller and smaller the farther north we go, yet the same 

 general character of life everywhere prevails. 



The time at our command for the voyage is limited, yet we reach 

 to within a few miles of Rigoulette, the chief station on the east 

 coast, if we except some of the Dutch settlements much farther 

 north, and the mouth of the only river of importance in all Labra- 

 dor. Beyond are the " Dutch settlements, " the headquarters of 

 the Moravian missionaries, who are supported in their work chiefly 

 by the Moravians in this country at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. 

 Their headquarters on the coast are at Hopedale, Nain, Okkak, 

 Port Manvers, Hebron, and possibly even at Ungava bay itself, 

 though at the last named place I am uncertain whether there be an 

 established station or not. Situated as we are, then, on a flying 

 visit much farther north than we have ever been before in this most 

 interesting country, with litde time at our command for investiga- 

 tion, and with so many avenues open through which to procure 

 facts concerning the places visited, I find myself compelled to as- 

 sume the diary form of writing ; and, instead of a systematic ac- 

 count of each place as we visited it, and an arranging of facts 

 always in their proper connection, I give them as they were pro- 

 cured, being sure that, in this case at least, it is by far the better 

 way, and will give more satisfaction in the end. 



