Preface 
PRESIDENT LowWELL in his inaugural address 
said to the professional man that ‘‘a firm 
grasp of some subject lying outside of his 
vocation is an advantage.”’ The following 
chapters are the result of a five-weeks’ trip 
in May and June, 1909, by one who tries to 
live up to this advice. Although that subject, 
as may be gathered from these chapters, is 
ornithology, yet it may also be gathered that all 
branches of natural history on this Labrador 
coast were a delight to the writer, and that 
human studies, both Indian and white, came 
in for a full share of his observations. And 
perhaps this is well, for, as Professor Shaler 
said, ‘‘the most of our kind are not natural- 
ists but humanists.’”’ In any event it is hoped 
that the following lines, which have been used 
by the Harvard Travellers Club, are appro- 
priate: 
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