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OUTLINE OF THE VOYAGE. 



The coast of Labrador is distant from us only about a 

 week's journey, and in its southern parts is easily accessible 

 by aid of regularly running steamers. Its brief summers 

 possess the attractiveness of our own autumnal season. Its 

 scenery is magnificent, full of beauty and grandeur, distin- 

 guished by including the highest mountains on the entire 

 Atlantic side of America, and in other ways also rivaHng that 

 of many more frequently visited regions. Its reputation as 

 a cold, forbidding, desolate, and dangerous country is unjust. 

 Though forests are lacking near the coast, yet it has the 

 charm of an abundant vegetation, giving it color and life 

 without concealment of the glory of form belonging to its 

 rocky and lofty mountains. It supports a considerable 

 population, both native and white. It is visited annually by 

 hundreds of fishermen from Newfoundland, to some of whom 

 it is familiar even to its northern extreme. It has been ex- 

 plored by scientists to a considerable extent, and traversed 

 by them in various directions. Yet, in spite of these facts, 

 it remains comparatively unknown to most people and 

 attracts few visitors ; and scientific expeditions can still add 

 much to knowledge concerning it. 



Huntington Adams, an undergraduate of Harvard, ac- 

 companied the expedition made by Mr. Taber in 1899 in 

 search of Eskimos for the Paris Exposition of 1900. He re- 

 turned full of enthusiasm for the beauty of the country and 

 eager to return to it for further exploration. He had learned 

 that there was yet plentiful need of good scientific work 

 throughout the peninsula. Much of the coast is still very 



