AUDUBON'S LABRADOR TRIP 



tina Harbor — a mile to the eastward where 

 the crew of a whaling schooner were engaged 

 in trying out blubber, and they called on a 

 French-Canadian seal-catcher who gave them 

 much information about various fur-bearing 

 animals. In his "Episode" on "The Squat- 

 ters of Labrador" he refers to this man as 

 Pierre Jean-Baptiste Michaux. The latter's 

 cabin was in a sheltered nook where, to his 

 surprise, Audubon found the atmosphere quite 

 warm, vegetation luxuriant, and the winter 

 wren, white-crowned, fox, and Lincoln's spar- 

 rows, the Wilson's warbler, and horned lark in 

 full song. 



On July 23 the party visited the seal estab- 

 lishment at Sparr Point of Samuel Robertson, 

 a Scotchman, who had lived there for twenty 

 years. He was lord of the region, and well 

 contented with his lot; his profits from seal 

 oil and furs amounted the previous year to 

 £600. 



On July 23 they set sail from Bale de Porr 

 tage, intending to call on Chevalier at St. 

 Paul's River, but, on account of unfavorable 

 weather, were unable to do so. They found 

 themselves that evening off Bonne Esp6rance; 



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