THREE MODERN CARTWRIGHTS 
walrus skull and an Eskimo harpoon from the 
northeastern coast hung near some cabinets 
of mounted birds, the product of his gun along 
the coast. Among these we found a blue jay, 
a bird hitherto unrecorded for Labrador. This 
bird he had shot the previous winter not far 
from his house; later we saw a single bird of 
this species at Mingan, so that our record for 
this bird for Labrador is very satisfactory. 
One of the most interesting departments of 
the household was the refrigerating plant, built 
after the master’s own design. It consisted of 
a detached building in which were several 
zinc-lined chests surrounded by a freezing 
mixture of snow and salt. In these chests, 
frozen solidly, was game of all sorts, mostly 
obtained in winter for summer use. Trout and 
porcupines, haunch of caribou and of beaver 
and of other animals, for our host, like Cart- 
wright of old, being of independent mind and 
not subservient to custom, was fond of trying 
the flesh of animals not commonly used as food. 
Among the birds were willow ptarmigan, white 
as snow, with the exception of their black tails 
and the black centres of their wing quills, and 
a couple of splendid Barrow’s golden-eye ducks. 
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