70 LABRADOR 



phobia or of the Tcenia echinococcus, or fatal tapeworm, 

 that dogs transmit to man. 



The restorative influence of a holiday in Labrador on 

 a jaded and overwrought system is often truly wonderful, 

 and I feel sure that, under proper conditions, a constitution 

 will be toned up much faster than in the summer resorts. 

 Commander Peary has recently added his testimony to the 

 great value of the Arctic air to consumptives. 



There has somehow got abroad an idea that Labrador 

 is continually wrapped in fog. This is an entirely erroneous 

 idea, and has arisen from the fact that at the line of junction 

 of the Gulf and polar currents, in the regions of the Banks 

 of Newfoundland and England, more or less fog is preva- 

 lent. As a matter of fact, fog is almost left behind at the 

 Strait of Belle Isle. Many times as we have steamed out 

 of the strait in thick fog, and passed the southeast corner 

 of Labrador, we emerged from what, on looking back, re- 

 sembled a dark wall, to bask suddenly in the clearest of 

 sunshine. As master of my own vessel for fifteen years on 

 the coast, I can say that the delays that I have experienced 

 in the summer from fog between Battle Harbour and Cape 

 Chidley have been quite immaterial. Thus, during last 

 year's cruise, commenced on May 7, and ended November 

 13, we were delayed by fog only one day. On the average, 

 a more or less foggy day once a fortnight may be expected. 



The rainfall again is exceptionally small, and the small 

 amount of snow that falls in the eight winter months, which 

 is at that time the rain of the country, is not sufficient to 

 leave a permanent ice-cap even on the highest peaks. 

 There are no accurate statistics to show exactly what the 

 rainfall is, but the experience of visitors is that a whole 



