EST AUDUBON'S LABRADOR 



those men who, on meeting, one would at once 

 say, ' Bless you, dear man.' 



"Tom Lincoln, quiet, reserved, sensible, prac- 

 tical and reliable. George C. Shattuck, a quiet 

 man, but if you had thought him a goose you 

 would soon have discovered your mistake. Joe 

 Coolidge, unselfish, with a lot of sea and other 

 practical knowledge, and a right good fellow. 

 John W. Audubon, always good-natured, he and 

 his papa the best of (boyish) friends, cheering us 

 sometimes with his violin. I have spoken of the 

 Captain whom we all honored for his skill and 

 his evident desire to help the expedition, and 

 now let me repeat a truth which was uttered 

 by Mr. Audubon: 'Brought together, strangers, 

 tiiree months in a small ship, we can say there 

 was not a word or spirit of an unpleasant nature 

 in all that time.' " 



Mr. Ruthven Deane tells me that Captain 

 Emery died of yellow fever in 1840, and that the 

 schooner Ripley met her fate a few years later 

 when she was wrecked in the Bay of Chaleurs. 



In a letter,^ written to his son Victor on the 



eve of his departure, Audubon says: "We are 



'■ This and the following quotations in this chapter are from 

 "The Labrador Journal" in Audubon and his Journals, re- 

 ferred to above. 



