IN AUDUBON'S LABRADOR 



most travelers. He says, however, that his 

 young companions "have yet energy to eat 

 tremendously." In a letter ^ written to Mr, 

 Ruthven Deane by Dr. William Ingalls in his 

 ninetieth year occurs the following: "And 

 permit me to say cornmeal bread made by a 



good cook with sea-birds' eggs is fit for 



■ Yum- Yum!! Excuse me, I am nothing 



but a boy." This bears out my contention 

 that the usual idea of the meaning of the 

 phrase, "Whom the gods love die young," is 

 incorrect. It really means that those whom 

 the gods love die young even if they live to be 

 a hundred. 



On July 13, taking advantage of a favorable 

 wind, the Ripley sailed again easterly on the 

 open sea, and on the next day in rough water 

 managed by good luck to enter the harbor of 

 "Little Macatine," and all were soon ashore 

 climbing the hills. This is Hare Harbor in 

 the island of Little Mecattina. "Nothing but 

 rocks — barren rocks • — wild as the wildest of 

 the Apennines everywhere." True naturalist 

 that he was, everything interested him. The 

 raised beaches of pebbles he attributed to the 

 * The Auk, vol. xxvii (1910), p. 48. 

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