THE RETURN HOME. 8l 



like coarse beef. Seal's flippers we also found not to be 

 distasteful, though never to be regarded as a delicacy. 



Dredging and collecting insects on fine days when not 

 too calm filled up the measure of our seven weeks. The 

 time passed rapidly, the days were too short for all the 

 work we planned to do, and it was not without regret 

 that we left the rugged untamed shores of " the Labra- 

 dor." On the afternoon of the very day she had set for 

 her return to Caribou Island, the Nautilus hove in sight. 

 As she made our harbor she struck, upon a sunken rock, 

 tore off a piece of her keel, but slid off and came to an- 

 chor as near as practicable to the mission house, and 

 then succeeded the mutual spinning of Labrador and 

 • Greenland yarns by the reunited party. 



