CHAPTEK XL VI. 



Notes nsr Labrador — Whalers — Sbal-killino — Esquimaux Dogs — Birds 

 AND Animals of Labrador — ^A Seal Station — Bras d'Oh Harbour — 

 The Fishers — Esquimaux Sledges and Dogs — Notes in the In- 

 terior—Young Birds — Hurricanes — Icebergs — Glimpses of the 

 Trees — Notes on Natural History. 



"July 22. This morning Captain Bayfield and his officers 

 came alongside to bid us good-bye, to pursue their labours 

 further westward. After breakfast we manned three boats, and 

 went to explore a small harbour about one mile east of our 

 anchorage. There we found a whaling schooner, fifty-five tons 

 burthen, from Cape Gaspe. We found the men employed in 

 boiling blubber in a large iron vesseLlike a sugar-boiler. The 

 blubber lay in heaps on the shore, in junks of six or. eight 

 pounds each, looking filthy enough. The captain or owner of 

 the vessel appeared to be a good sensible man of his class, and 

 cut off for me some strips of the whale's skin from under the 

 throat, with large and curious barnacles attached to the skin. 

 They had struck four whales, and three had sunk, and were lost 

 to them. This, the men said, was a very rare occurrence. We 

 found, also, at this place, a French Canadian seal-catcher, from 

 whom I gathered the following information. 



" This portion of Labrador is free to any one to settle on, and 

 he and another person had erected a cabin, and had nets and 

 traps to catch seals and foxes, and guns to shoot bears and 

 wolves. They take their quarry to Quebec, receiving fifty cents 

 a gallon for seal oil, and from three to five guineas for black 



