CHAPTER IV. 



LIFE AND NATURE IN SOUTHERN LABRADOR. 



The following recollections of our student days are 

 offered with the suggestion that the more adventuresome 

 of our college boys of the present day might spend .to 

 advantage the long summer vacation in cruising on our 

 northern coasts, and combine in agreeable proportions 

 science and travel. 



In the summer of i860, while a student in Bowdoin 

 College, I joined the Williams College expedition to 

 Labrador and Greenland under the charge of Professor 

 P. A. Chadbourne. June 27th found us on board the 

 Nautilus, a staunch schooner of about 140 tons, com- 

 manded by Capt. Randlett. Soon after five o'clock of 

 a bright, fresh morning our vessel cast off from the wharf 

 at Thomaston, Me. The Thomaston band played a 

 lively air, a clergyman made a parting address, calling 

 down the blessings of Heaven upon the argonauts ; our 

 Nestor replied, the students cheering for the citizens of 

 Thomaston and the band, and with a favoring northwest 

 wind the Nautilus, gliding down the current of the St. 

 George's River, a deep fiord, in a couple of hours reached 

 the open sea. 



Our course lay inside of Monhegan, with its high, bold 

 sea-wall. Passing on, the Camden Hills recede, and we 

 endeavor with the glass to make out the White Moun 



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