l6o A summer's cruise to northern LABRADOR. 



arctic ground-beetle {Carabus groenlandicus), which had 

 not before been found south of Greenland. 



Here was the best summer-house we had yet seen, 

 well built and tolerably attractive ; two pleasant, wom- 

 anly faces within, and a spaniel lying in front of the. 

 door. Captain Duff, the proprietor, had a spacious 

 wharf or stage and a well-kept fish-house, while he had 

 arranged the white quartz pebbles in an attractive way 

 to form a drying-floor or flake, instead of using poles ; 

 and the walk from the stage to the house was neatly 

 made of short poles, forming a corduroy-path. Another 

 toad was here seen, which some one had brought from 

 the head of the bay ; the man said that they were only 

 known to be found here and in St. Michael's Bay. We 

 also were told that a polar bear was killed here two 

 months ago. 



We reached this harbor early in the afternoon, and 

 some of the vessels which we had passed on the way 

 after awhile came in and dropped their anchor near us ; 

 others sailed on all night, but gained nothing in the end. 

 We astonished the natives and fishermen as we sailed 

 past their slower craft — of which we passed to-day about 

 thirty ; some would in a flattering and good-natured way 

 hold out a rope's end, asking to be towed. They told 

 us they had seen ninety sail that day in the sound lead- 

 ing to the harbor. 



In dredging at the slight depth of only seven fathoms, 

 to my great joy that interesting and hitherto purely polar 

 holothurian {Myriotrochus rinkit), came up ; with it 

 were associated the short arctic mya (^Mya truncata), the 

 Iceland cockle {^Cardium islandicuni), the Greenland 

 Aphrodite, the polar starfish {Asterias polaris), the inevi 



