CHAPTER VI 
THREE MODERN CARTWRIGHTS 
**In such like Toils and Sports, the Year goes round, 
And for each day, some Work or Pleasure’s found.” 
— Cartwright. 
- the latter part of the eighteenth cen- 
tury an adventurous Englishman spent 
sixteen years on the bleak eastern Labrador 
coast engaged in fishing, trapping and hunting, 
and in trading with the aborigines. Captain 
Cartwright’s Journal, originally published in 
1793, shows the evident joy of the man in his 
rugged life on those shores, and his appreciation 
of its attractions, notwithstanding the severity 
of its climate and its loneliness. Although, as 
a younger son in an old family of depleted 
fortunes, his ostensible object was the accumula- 
tion of money, it is evident that the spirit of 
sport and adventure, and not the desire to 
amass a fortune, was his guiding star. Origi- 
nally possessed of independence of character, 
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