THE PHYSIOGRAPHY OF LABRADOR TT 
through the ice. Sea-birds are nesting all along the coast 
on the islands and rocks, and foxes have their young. 
Many people gather the eggs and store them for eating. 
Traps are all taken in by the first day, as the fur is now 
losing colour and the long “king” hairs fall. Seals are 
beating north; swatching or shooting them from the ice 
pans as they come up to take breath forms a very favourite 
pastime. Old harps and bedlamer seals are caught on 
southern Labrador in great frame nets. Farther north 
the Eskimo are hunting the walrus. The deer are all going 
north and taking to the hills. The native bears leave their 
caves; any white bears that have gone south on the floes 
begin to work north again. 
June. Most of the snow has gone, though in places it 
remains to the water-level. Ground is still hard frozen, 
with occasional frosts at night. Arctic ice still besets the 
coast. Fishing vessels work down along the straits and 
the southern part of the east coast. Some years the mail 
boat gets as far as Hamilton Inlet; other years ice inside 
the islands is as hard as at any time in the winter. In the 
straits the cod-fishery 1s in full swing, while on the east coast 
the southerners in their schooners are up the bays get- 
ting wood for firing, for stages, ete. Americans, Canadians, 
and West Coast Newfoundlanders are trawling in the straits 
and Gulf. The sea is very calm, owing to the ice outside. 
The briliancy of the sun, the innumerable icebergs, the 
return of the whales, and the fleets of fishing vessels make 
the scenic effects some of the best in the year. In the inlets 
the salmon and trout fisheries are being prosecuted. Deer 
seek the hills to avoid the mosquitoes. The does are with 
their fawns in the woods.. Black bear seek the fish along 
