IQO A summer's cruise to northern LABRADOR. 



Cole's brother. The fire was ascribed to Indians, vvha 

 probably set the woods in a blaze to drive out the game ; 

 it was preceded by two unusually warm and dry days, 

 at the time when the wind turned westerly and we were 

 let out from our prison at Square Island. 



The icebergs were still neighborly, two large ones in 

 the offing, one like a church steeple, the body submerged, 

 beneath the waves, while the other suggested the form, 

 of a huge squirrel sitting on his haunches with his tail 

 over his back. According to Cole the snow and ice 

 clears off from the coast at this point about the 20th of 

 June ; at least that is the date when he leaves his winter 

 house for his residence on shore ; the first of October, 

 when the snow begins to fall, he moves back into the 

 interior. 



The early part of the next day it stormed, blowing 

 almost a gale from the north, with heavy rain ; we still 

 held on to our rather exposed anchorage under a high 

 point of land; not the least bight or indentation near at 

 hand for harborage. In the afternoon the weather; 

 moderating, we got under way, and reached Strawberry 

 Harbor at ten o'clock in the evening. On our way here 

 we were boarded by an Eskimo in his kayak, who had 

 been living in this bay during the summer. We first 

 caught sight of the little craft two or three miles astern. 

 It looked as it came up, bows on, like a large puffin sitting 

 on the waves ; soon we could see the paddle describing 

 a trajectory such as the wings of a puffin might make, and 

 eventually we could recognize the- human apart from the 

 kayak, though an Eskimo seems an integral portion of 

 his kayak, — one as human as the other. We throw 

 over a rope, the kayak disgorges the Eskimo, the latter 



