CHAPTER II 
FROM SEVEN ISLANDS TO ESQUIMAUX POINT 
“Backward and forward, along the shore 
Of lorn and desolate Labrador 
And found at last her way 
To the Seven Islands Bay.” 
— Whittier. 
O*N most maps the name Labrador is at- 
tached only to the narrow strip under 
the jurisdiction of Newfoundland on the Atlan- 
tic coast, yet it belongs in reality to the entire 
peninsula which begins at the Gulf of St. Law- 
rence at the point where the soth parallel 
strikes the coast. A line drawn from this point 
to the southern extremity of Hudson Bay, or 
rather of its offshoot, James Bay, separates 
the great peninsula from the rest of Canada. 
This westernmost point of the Labrador coast 
in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is about thirty 
miles to the west of Seven Islands, and about 
three hundred and fifty east of Quebec. 
As we approached the Labrador coast, after 
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