LABRADOR AND NEW- 

 FOUND L A N D .'==- 



ffflfffr^ notes of a "Summer' Cruise to Labrador" were 

 fii'st printed in the New York Journal of Com- 



merce, and subsequently took shape in the ex- 

 tended article in Harper's Magazine, to which 

 reference is here made. Though now twelve 

 years published, it remains the most comprehensive sketch 

 of Labrador extant, little having ever been Avritten of that 

 portion of its sterile land which lies to the northward of the 

 Belle Isle Strait. 



As ftxr back as the fifteenth century, Labrador was fre- 

 quented by Spaniards and Frenchmen who had large fishing- 

 establishments on the coast, some of which still remain and 

 retain the names given them by their former occupants. 

 Of others only vestiges of ancient buildings and fortifications 

 are traced. At the Moisie, St. John, and Natashquan 

 Rivers, and at Mutton Bay, Bradore, and Blanc Sablon, 

 there are considerable villages where a large amount of re- 

 munerative business is transacted in summer-time. Large 

 quantities of codfish and salmon are prepared for export. 

 Holliday's establishment alone, at the mouth of the St. 

 John, puts up some 20,000 pounds of salmon in cans an- 



* See Harper's Magazine, vol. xxii, pages 577, 743. 



