AUDUBON'S LABRADOR TRIP 



anchored at St. George's Bay, Newfoundland. 

 Here "the temperature changed quite sud- 

 denly, and this afternoon the weather was so 

 mild that it was agreeable on deck, and con- 

 genial even to a Southerner like myself." 

 Here they explored and collected and disported 

 themselves at a ball, where John Woodhouse 

 Audubon played the violin till half-past two 

 in the morning. After four days of sea-sick- 

 ness they reached Nova Scotia and rejoiced 

 mightily as they smelt the odor of new-mown 

 hay and heard the music of the crickets. Leav- 

 ing the schooner, they walked full of joy among 

 familiar surroundings to Pictou and put up at 

 the " Royal Oak." In Pictou they saw much 

 of Professor McCullough. Thence they went 

 by coach to Halifax where, from walking about 

 to see the town, "all have aching feet and 

 leg-bones in consequence of walking on hard 

 ground after tramping only on the softest, 

 deepest mosses for two months. ' ' Leaving Hali- 

 fax, they journeyed by coach to Windsor, saw 

 the wonderful Bay of Fundy tide, and took the 

 Maid of the Mist to Eastport. "Here we were 

 kindly received by all our acquaintance; our 

 trunks were not opened, and the new clothes 



