IN AUDUBON'S LABRADOR 



Thomas near Quebec, but the men have al- 

 ways followed the sea. One of the captain's 

 earliest recollections is of a trip at the age of 

 five along the Labrador coast in his father's 

 trading-schooner. At Natashquan dogs were 

 hitched to a komatic for his benefit, and he en- 

 joyed dog-sledging over the moss in summer. 

 At the age of twenty-one he sailed before the 

 mast to India, and since he was twenty-three 

 he has commanded a schooner on the Canadian 

 Labrador coast. He therefore knows this coast 

 most intimately, ■ — every nook and corner, 

 every island and reef, in a way that no chart 

 reveals. The best chart is misleading, for is- 

 lands half a mile long, not to speak of rocks 

 and reefs, are often entirely omitted. In fact all 

 modem charts are based on the survey made 

 by Captain Bayfield, of the Gulnare, who was 

 at work on the coast in Audubon's day. Al- 

 though fairly accurate, these charts give but an 

 imperfect idea of the number and size of the 

 islands and of the intricacies of the coast. The 

 maps recently published by the Department 

 of Lands and Forests of Quebec, which, how- 

 ever, do not attempt to give the depths of the 

 water as do charts for navigators, are a lit- 

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