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ing high in the air, go at once, and correctly, too, across im- 

 mense tracts of country, seemingly indifferent to them, but at 

 once stopping, and making their abode in special parts here- 

 tofore their own, by previous knowledge of the advantages and 

 comforts which they have enjoyed, and they know awaits them 

 there. 



" August 10. I now sit down to post up my poor book, while 

 a furious gale is blowing without. I have neglected to make 

 daily records for some days, because I have been so constantly 

 drawing, that when night came, I was too weary to wield my 

 pen. Indeed, all my physical powers have been taxed to weari- 

 ness by this little work of drawing ; my neck and shoulders, 

 and most of all my fingers, have ached from the fatigue ; and I 

 have suffered more from this kind of exertion than from walking 

 sixty-five miles in a day, which I once did. 



" To-day I have added one more new species to the ' Birds of 

 America,' the Labrador falcon ; and may we live to see its 

 beautiful figure multiplied by Havell's graver." 



The journal gives a list of the names of one hundred and 

 seventy-three skins of birds, which were obtained on the coast 

 of Labrador by Audubon and his party on this expedition. 

 The episode given in the following chapter seems to simimarize 

 Audubon's observations of the inhabitants of Labrador. 



