A LABRADOR SPRING 
strengthened by split birch saplings interwoven 
at right angles. These last two forms of dwelling 
were covered with canvas,—I saw none 
covered with skins or birch bark. Nearly all 
contained small oblong sheet-iron stoves with 
tiny stove-pipes that emerged between the 
sticks at the top of the wigwam. Much of their 
cooking seemed to be done at fires outside, 
where a large pot was to be seen hanging from a 
wooden bar between two poles. 
These friends of mine, these “‘ savages” at 
the Isles of the Crow, were not mercenary, they 
had nothing to sell, but having completed the 
labours of the year in the interior in trapping for 
furs, and having sold the products to the 
traders, they were, like ladies and gentlemen, 
travelling about visiting their friends and 
spending their summer’s vacation at the 
sea-side. Later they would attend religious 
services. 
That they were making disastrous inroads on 
the sea-birds, and contributing to their ex- 
termination, there was no doubt, but it must 
be remembered that before the arrival of the 
whites, when the Indians were in larger numbers 
along this coast, the sea-birds easily held their 
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