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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 Mugford; 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 Mugford, 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 
