IN AUDUBON'S LABRADOR 



were of carefully thatched fresh balsam boughs; 

 guns and various household goods were neatly 

 arranged at the sides. Each tent contained a 

 small sheet-iron stove whose smoke-pipe was 

 conducted out through the top. In one tent 

 was a small sewing-machine. We had been 

 told by Richard Joncas, of Natashquan, of one 

 Indian who spent all his fortune on a parlor 

 organ and another one who indulged in a 

 safety razor. 



One family group inside a tent struck me as 

 being particularly picturesque, but even the 

 tobacco did not bring them out. In despair I 

 seized each one in turn by the hand and led 

 them forth amidst much laughter and grouped 

 them about a pot on a fire for their photograph. 

 The girls, who were smoking their pipes, — 

 for both sexes and all ages smoke, — could not, 

 however, be induced to continue the process 

 during the picture-taking. One of the men, 

 — particularly well built, tall and lithe, with 

 a face indicative of much intelligence and 

 strength of character, — I learned through our 

 interpreter was Pierre Lolo, the best hunter 

 of the tribe. 



Of late the Indians have been fishing for cod 



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