CAPTAIN CARTWRIGHT AND HIS 

 LABRADOR JOURNAL 



Edited by Charles Wendell Townsend, M. D. With an intro- 

 duction by Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell. Dana Esles and Co., 

 Publishers, 1911. 



" The general reader, who is seldom, like Southey, ' a 

 verbatim reader of indefatigable patience,' will doubt- 

 less welcome Dr. Townsend's edition of this curious 

 book, free from unimportant details and much that is 

 mere repetition. In aU essential points — spelling, 

 punctuation, and so forth — the text is faithfully repro- 

 duced. . . . The book is illustrated from modern photo- 

 graphs of some of the scenes mentioned by Cartwright 

 and by portraits and reproductions from old prints. 

 . . . Captain George Cartwright's Labrador Journal is 

 compared by Dr. Grenfell to such books as ' The Bible 

 in Spain ' and ' The Natural History of Selborne.' 

 Certainly, as a naturalist, Cartwright is hke White in 

 )i the patient nicety of his observations of birds, animals 

 and plants. His Journal is a most vivid record of 

 sport and natural history, of trials and adventures, of 

 trade with the ' Indians,' of the ' people ' over whom 

 he ruled fairly, yet with firmness. His account of the 

 piratical raid of an American privateer must be read in 

 the full to be enjoyed. His was a resourceful natru'e, and 

 an indomitable spirit. . . . He speaks well of the Eskimo. 

 . . . Some of these people he took with him to England. 

 Cartwright tells of their delight in being placed in the 

 ''< King's box at Covent Garden, and of their terror at see- 

 <1 ing a skeleton at the house of John Hunter, the famous 

 surgeon." — Westminster Gazette, March 27, 1912. 



" The present edition of his journal is composed of 

 extracts very carefully selected, and a full introduction 

 and notes by the editor. It is well, as Dr. Grenfell 

 points out in a preface, that this interesting item in 

 the scant bibhography of Labrador should be saved 

 from oblivion." — Journal of the Royal Geographical 

 Society, July, 1912. 



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