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US in. We landed for a few minutes and shot a hermit thrush, 

 but the wind sprang up, and we returned to the vessel and tried 

 to put out to sea ; we were for a time in danger of drifting upon 

 the rocks, but the wind increased, and we made our way out to 

 sea. Suddenly, however, the fog came drifting in, and was so 

 thick that we could hardly see the bowsprit, and the night was 

 spent in direful apprehension of some impending evil ; although, 

 about twelve, squalls of wind decided in our favour, and when 

 day dawned the wind was blowing fresh from the north, and we 

 were driving on the waters, all sea-sick, and crossing that worst 

 of all dreadful bays, the Bay of Fundy. 



" Jvme 8. We sailed between Seal and Mud Islands. In the 

 latter the procellaria (a species of gull) breed abundantly ; 

 their nests are dug in the sand to the depth of two feet or more, 

 and the whole island is covered with them, looking like rat 

 holes. They lay three white eggs." 



The next two days recorded in the Journal describe the winds 

 and sights, and birds which were seen as the voyagers scudded 

 from Cape Sable to the Gut of Canseau, so named by the early 

 French voyagers, because they found vast quantities of wild 

 geese there. The wind was fair, and the captain of the 

 Kipley wished to continue his course to Labrador. But 

 Audubon, anxious to explore every part of the coast along 

 which they were sailing, persuaded the captain to come to 

 anchor in a harbour in the Gut of Ganseau, of the same name. 

 Here he found twenty sail of Labrador fishermen at anchor, and 

 obtained the information which enabled him to write the follow- 

 ing episode. 



