PROCEEDING NORTH ALONG THE LABRADOR COAST. 



XXII 

 A SUMMER SAIL TO THE LABRADOR COAST 



A VOYAGE to the Labrador coast is full of interest to the lover 

 of imposing coast scenery, and if only the salmon streams 

 could be explored and the big game reached with greater facility 

 than at present its interest would be greatly enhanced to the sports- 

 man. Each recurring summer season brings parties of eager students 

 from each of the two great American Universities, Yale and Harvard, 

 cruising about the coasts in little fishing schooners chartered for 

 the excursion, combining in agreeable proportions the pursuit of 

 science, sport, and travel. There is always a nameless glamour 

 over everything pertaining to the arctic world, and in the hot 

 summer months when to those ' in populous city pent ' ice seems a 

 mere figment of the imagination, except for certain cooling cubes 

 afloat on the surface of refreshing potations, there is a distinct 

 charm in allowing memory to wander back to blue seas flecked with 

 chips of the arctic floes. 



Apart from sport a summer trip to the coast presents many 

 features of remarkable interest. Owing to its exposed position the 

 western coast of Labrador is seldom free from the roar and fret of 

 the long Atlantic rollers. A tremendous slow-breaking swell comes 

 in both before and after a heavy blow, rolling slowly but irresistibly 

 landward until it bursts with fury upon the coast with wild lamenta- 

 tions, hurling sheets of foam and spray sparkling in the sunbeams 

 high up the sides of the wave-worn ledges. There are also frequent 

 extraordinary and voluptuous studies in colour in the evening 



