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tnainder. Large jars were filling apace with the bodies of 
rare birds, fishes, quadrupeds and reptiles, as well as mollus- 
cous animals. We had several pets too, Gulls, Cormorants, 
Guillemots, -Puffins, Hawks and a Raven. In some of the 
harbors, curious fishes were hooked in our sight, so clear was 
the water. 
We found that camping out at night was extremely un- 
eomfortable, on account of the annoyance caused by flies and 
musquitoes, which attacked the hunters in swarms at all times, 
but more especially when they lay down, unless they enveloped 
themselves in thick smoke, which is not much more pleasant. 
Once when camping, the weather became very bad, and’ the 
party was twenty miles distant from Whapatiguan as night 
threw her mantle over the earth. The rain fell in torrents, 
the north-east wind blew furiously, and the air was extremely: 
cold. The oars of the boat were fixed so as to support some 
blankets, and a small fire was with difficulty kindled, on the 
embers of which a scanty meal was cooked. How different 
from a camp on the shores of the Mississippi, where wood is 
abundant, and the air generally not lacking heat, where mus- 
quitoes, though plentiful enough, are not accompanied by: 
carraboo flies, and where the barkings of a joyful squirrel, or 
the notes of the Barred Owl, that grave buffoon of our western 
woods, never fail to gladden the camper as he cuts to the right 
and left such branches and canes as most easily supply mate- 
rials for forming a lodging for the night! On the coast of 
Labrador there are no such things; granite and green moss 
are spread around, silence like that of the grave envelopes 
all, and when night has closed the dreary scene from your 
sight, the wolves, attracted by the scent of the remains of 
your scanty repast, gather around you. Cowards as they 
are, they dare not venture on a charge; but their howlings 
effectually banish sleep. You must almost roast your feet 
to keep them warm, while your head and shoulders are chilled 
by the blast. When morning comes, she smiles nut on you with 
