AUDUBON'S LABRADOR TRIP 



fear that strangers should attempt to settle 

 here, and divide with them the profits which 

 they enjoy." 



On the same day the vessel Gulnare, Cap- 

 tain Bayfield, entered the harbor on a survey- 

 ing cruise. He found the ship's doctor to be 

 a student of botany and conchology. "Thus 

 men of the same tastes meet everywhere, yet 

 surely I did not expect to meet a naturalist 

 on the Labrador coast." Later he dined on the 

 Gulnare at five o'clock, "and was obliged to 

 shave and dress — quite a bore on the coast 

 of Labrador, believe me." The party con- 

 sisted of the captain, the surgeon, and three 

 oificers, and "the conversation ranged from 

 botany to politics, from the Established Church 

 of England to the hatching of eggs by steam. 

 I saw the maps being made of this coast, and 

 was struck with the great accuracy of the shape 

 of our present harbor, which I now know full 

 well." 



On June 27 he records the discovery of a 

 new species of bird, the Lincoln's sparrow: 

 "We shot a new species of Finch, which I have 

 named Fringilla lincolnii." On July 4 he says: 

 " I have drawn all day, and have finished the 



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