IN AUDUBON'S LABRADOR 



Rocky points now began to appear along 

 the shore, gray and red granitic rocks, ribs 

 from the backbone of the Labrador Peninsula. 

 Against these the waves sent up great masses 

 of white spray. Twelve miles farther west is 

 Musquarro; Here are a small Indian mission 

 church and one or two houses. In June this 

 is the great gathering-point of the Montagnais 

 Indians for their annual religious rites, and a 

 priest comes there to meet them; in 1909 I 

 had seen the Indians leaving Natashquan for 

 this purpose. Gradually the land behind be- 

 came higher and low islands appeared. At 

 Washsheecootai there is one house on the 

 point, that of a salmon-fisherman, the father- 

 in-law of our cook. Here is where Ernest had 

 come a-courting. 



About fifty miles from Natashquan we 

 anchored in a protected cove of Triple Island, 

 but alas! only a few herring and great black- 

 backed gulls and fewer razor-billed auks were 

 to be seen. The gulls flew complainingly over- 

 head, and well they might, for their nests, scat- 

 tered over the island, had all been robbed. This 

 can easily be explained, for it is only nine 

 miles from here to the mouth of the Romaine 

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