xiv PREFACE 



the beaver must look for it in this work. The 

 common accounts are fables. 



" Coleridge took up a volmne one day, and was 

 delighted with its strange simplicity." 



Cartwright reveals himself in these pages as a 

 lover of the truth, a good observer and hard 

 worker, a philosopher in good fortune and in ill 

 fortune, a resourceful man in many trying experi- 

 ences, and above all a man of strict honour and 

 justice. In a larger field he might have attained 

 great eminence. The memory of his labours and 

 observations in Labrador are well worth cherish- 

 ing. 



