2l8 A summer's cruise to northern LABRADOR. 



The afternoon of the lothwe sighted the familiar out- 

 lines of Tub Island. The wind was southeast, and the 

 next day it was too stormy to allow us to run out ; and 

 early in the succeeding day a dry northeast gale raged, 

 but cleared off sufficiently in the afternoon to allow us 

 to sail, in three hours, twenty-four miles to Dumplin 

 Harbor, where dredging was profitable, though it was 

 cold work hauling in the rope in the northeast wind. 



The next day we beat against a southeast wind about 

 twenty miles down to Cateau Harbor, passing numerous 

 headlands on which raged a fine surf. The dredging in 

 this harbor, where the sea-bottom was sandy and prolific 

 in worms, shells, and Echinoderms, was excellent ; 

 among other rarities we hauled up specimens of the 

 arctic holothurian Myriotrochus Rinkii, and a smaller 

 simpler sea-cucumber, the Eupyrgtcs scaber, more like a 

 small faded Martynia than a cucumber. 



The 14th and 15th continued to be stormy, the wind 

 northerly, with, more or less fog, bergs and floating ice, 

 making it dangerous sailing. We however got as far as 

 Indian Tickle, where was the largest and best appointed 

 fishing establishment we had yet visited, belonging to Mr. 

 M. H. Warren, who lives in London during the winter, 

 spending the summer here, where he employs two hun- 

 €red and fifty men. Here the salmon fishery had been a 

 failure, and the fishermen complained of the " black stuff" 

 in the water, the delicate and interesting Limacina — 

 which they declared "poisoned the fish." 



At noon of the i6th, when the fog lifted, a northerly 

 wind carried us into Domino Harbor. We found that 

 there was some trouble at the " rooms" here about paying 

 duties on produce brought upon this coast by traders. 



