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himself to be put out of temper by having to breakfast or 

 to dine an hour earlier than he thought fashionable or 

 suitable. He had read much, and remembered well ; was 

 a good linguist, a temperate man, a good churchman, tied 

 an excellent fly of which he was particularly careful 

 was a laborious and persevering fisherman, and had great 

 taste in dinners and in dress. 



The first time we sailed in his yacht, he, from some un- 

 accountable whim, arrayed himself in a full suit of scarlet, 

 scarlet jacket, scarlet waistcoat, and scarlet trousers. Upon 

 landing at Mingan Harbour, we found that in order to 

 ascend the river in our boats, we should either have to 

 make a detour round a large sandbank at its mouth, of 

 some six or seven miles, or have the boats carried across a 

 narrow strip of land, three or four hundred yards, which 

 separated us from it. The officer commanding at the 

 Hudson's Bay Company's post having obligingly offered us 

 a sled and. a bull for the purpose, determined us to adopt 

 the latter course. 



The bull was caught harnessed, and, not without 

 sundry manifestations of unwillingness, led to the water's 

 side, where the boats had been already drawn up ; when 

 the seamen, with the assistance of a couple of Indians, set 

 about placing one of them upon the sled. During this 

 process, the Captain who was directing it, passed in front of 

 the bull, who gazed at him, apparently with a mixture of 

 fear and amazement, showing symptoms of a desire to re- 



