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ward, so that however hard it may be to beat against head 

 winds to the northward, it is always easy to get back again. 

 Fire-wood for camping purposes can be obtained every- 

 where south of Cape Mugf ord ; with a little care and fore- 

 sight the fuel question need offer no difficulty. 



After many years' cruising the coast as master of my 

 own vessel, after having visited the coasts of Norway and 

 Iceland, as well as having coasted all round the British 

 Isles, I consider that none of these European shores offers 

 a more fascinating and safer field for pleasure cruising than 

 the coast of Labrador. Everywhere the coast is bold-to, 

 and if disaster overtakes a pleasure vessel in the summer 

 months, it is due to negligence or to bad tackle for holding 

 or running gear. 



If the visitor to Labrador desires scenery of a wild and 

 rocky nature, he should certainly aim for the northern half 

 of the northeast coast. At Nain the cliffs are already 

 beginning to rise to heights which cannot fail to delight 

 the eye and to stimulate the imagination. From that 

 point on, the sheer precipices increase in number and im- 

 pressiveness until, at Port Manvers, they rise two thousand 

 feet out of the sea ; at Cape Mugf ord, three thousand feet ; 

 at the Moravian Mission station, Ramah, thirty-five hun- 

 dred feet; while the mountains rising direct from sea- 

 level in the Nachvak region are over four thousand feet in 

 height. One of the finest of the great mountain-blocks is 

 that at Cape White Handkerchief so named from a 

 large mass of white rock in the face of this stupendous 

 promontory. At the head of Seven Islands Bay are the 

 highest mountains in Labrador, known as the "Four 

 Peaks." So far as known, no white man has ever climbed 



