THREE MODERN CARTWRIGHTS 
his life in Labrador further developed it, as 
such a life naturally would, and instead of 
leading the trivial humdrum life of the average 
sporting squire, which would probably have 
been his lot if he had settled down at home, he 
became a careful observer and an accurate 
recorder of animal and vegetable nature, a 
skilful leader of men, and just in all his relations 
with them, notably so in his relations with the 
savages, both Eskimo and Indian, — an in- 
teresting figure indeed in the early days of the 
Labrador coast. 
This same joy of living in remote parts, away 
from the conventional life of the cities, this 
same love of a wild life with all its hardships 
and struggles, is still an attribute of humanity 
not difficult to find. The conventional city 
life has been of very recent advent in the his- 
tory of the human race; it is a mere speck in 
his inheritance of the past, and we all tend to 
revert to the savage. The man who does not is 
sincerely to be pitied; he does not know the 
full joy of living. 
Three friends that I made on this Labrador 
coast each suggested in his own way my old 
friend Cartwright. The first was a New Eng- 
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