IN AUDUBON'S LABRADOR 



read the Journal, which I had brought with 

 me, with the greatest of interest, and was able 

 from the descriptions to identify the harbors 

 where the Ripley cast anchor. 



The captain was also familiar with the sea- 

 bird population and was able to take me to 

 interesting ornithological regions. With all 

 this he had a pleasing personality, one which 

 at once inspired confidence and affection. I 

 was indeed fortunate in my pilot — far more 

 fortunate than Audubon. 



We had a long course ahead of us, over 

 thirty miles unprotected by islands from the 

 sweep of the Gulf, the longest unprotected 

 strip along the whole Canadian Labrador 

 coast east of Mingan. Five miles brought us 

 to the Great Natashquan River, which has two 

 mouths separated by a large island ; the eastern 

 mouth is much larger than the western, with 

 which I was well acquainted. Both pour great 

 volumes of dark-brown water far out into the 

 sea, whose color, deep green, forms with the 

 river water a great contrast. At English Point, 

 a short way beyond the western mouth, is a 

 lighthouse recently built. It is the only one 

 between St. Mary's Island on the east and the 



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