IN AUDUBON'S LABRADOR 



the trip, Captain A. Edmond Joncas, and his 

 schooner the Sea Star. M. Johan Beetz, who 

 had courteously invited me to pay him a visit 

 at Piashte Bay, — now officially known as 

 Bay Johan Beetz, — also came to meet us on 

 the wharf. Although the botanist was hos- 

 pitably included in the invitation, he decided 

 to stay a day at Esquimaux Point to investi- 

 gate the flora of that limestone region, and 

 come on later in the Sea Star. 



The next morning found me embarked in 

 the little mail schooner with M. Beetz en route 

 for his house, of which I had such pleasant 

 memories of six years before, when Mr. A. C. 

 Bent and I passed a day there and were roy- 

 ally entertained. M . Johan Beetz, a native of 

 Brussels and a man of education, came to this 

 coast twenty years ago for a summer's sport, 

 was charmed by the place, spent the winter 

 at Piashte Bay, married the young telegraph- 

 operator of that tiny village, and, with the 

 exception of trips with his family to Europe, 

 has stayed there ever since. He is a pioneer 

 in the black fox industry, and, when I was 

 there six years ago, he had seven parks of these 

 animals; now he has twenty-one. On the mail 

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