362 Life of Audubon. 



Audubon names about twenty different species of 

 birds which he saw here ; hares and caraboos are among 

 the animals, and among the wild plants he found two 

 species of roses. 



" The women flew before us as if we were wild beasts, 

 and one who had a pail of water, at sight of us, dropped 

 it, and ran to hide herself; another who was looking for 

 a cow, on seeing us coming, ran into the woods, and after- 

 wards crossed a stream waist deep to get home to her hut 

 without passing us. We are told that no laws are admin- 

 istered here, and to my surprise not a sign of a church 

 exists. The people are all fishermen and live poorly ; in 

 one enclosure I saw a few pretty good-looking cabbages. 

 We can buy only milk and herrings, the latter ten cents a 

 dozen; we were asked eight dollars for a tolerable calf, 

 but chickens were too scarce to be obtained. Two clear- 

 ings across the bay are the only signs of cultivated land. 

 Not a horse has yet made its way into the country, and 

 not even a true Newfoundland dog, nothing but curs of a 

 mixed breed. 



" Some of the buildings looked like miserable hovels, 

 others more like habitable houses. Not a blacksmith's 

 shop here, and yet one would probably do well. The 

 customs of the people are partly Canadian and partly 

 English. The women all wear cotton caps covering their 

 ears. The passage to and from our vessel to the shore was 

 the roughest I ever made in an open boat, and we were 

 completely soaked by the waves which dashed over us. 



'■'■August 15. We have had a beautiful day. This 

 morning some Indians came alongside of our vessel with 

 half a reindeer, a caraboo, and a hare of a species I had 

 never seen before. We gave them twenty-one pounds of 

 pork for forty-four pounds of venison, thirty-three pounds 

 of bread for the caraboo, and a quarter of a dollar for the 

 hare. The Indians showed much cleverness in striking 



