CHAPTER X. 



A summer's cruise to northern LABRADOR. 



V. THE RETURN VOYAGE TO BOSTON. 



On August 4th we bade farewell to Moravians and 

 Eskimos ; and with deep regret that it was not possible 

 for us to go farther north, at least to the 60th parallel 

 of latitude, we weighed anchor and ran with a fresh west 

 wind abeam to Thomas's or Maggovik Bay, where the: 

 Norwegian Andersen lives in a well-wooded bight. 

 Andersen told me he had seen only one sort of caribou, 

 and did not know of a " barren-ground" as distinguished 

 from a "wood" caribou. He also said that the white 

 and blue fox littered together, but that the blue variety 

 was very rare. After dredging a while in fifteen fathoms 

 on a muddy bottom, where the interesting Myriotrochus 

 was common, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon Mr. Brad- 

 ford went with a boat's crew on a trading trip to 

 Thomas's house. The wind being dead ahead we had 

 to row all the way up, nearly thirty miles, and back, reach- 

 ing the vessel at one in the night. We took a late sup- 

 per at Mr. Thomas's hospitable house, and enjoyed a cup 

 of tea with goat's milk and good bread. The house was 

 •comfortably situated near some quite sizable spruce-trees, 

 with a flourishing garden near by. Mr. Thomas (for the 



site of his house see 17 on the map of Eskimo Bay) is 



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