GRAND ROMAINE AND OLD ROMAINE 



his feet, for he generally uprooted it with his 

 little pick and packed it away in his white tin 

 box, and later washed it and put it in his 

 presses. But his presses were all full, for dry- 

 ing plants in this damp climate is a difficult 

 matter, although he used corrugated boards 

 for ventilation and flaked naphthalin as a 

 preservative and dryer. Artificial desiccation 

 by means of a kerosene stove he found was out 

 of the question in our crowded quarters. We 

 did not wish to be burned or blown up. 



We seemed to be having genuine Audubon- 

 ian Labrador weather, for in the afternoon it 

 came on to blow hard from the east and the air 

 was filled with driving rain. Our little harbor 

 was white with spindrift blown horizontally 

 by the wind and dashed up against the rocks, 

 which looked as if they were covered with 

 drifting snow. The great black-backed gulls 

 with wings partly closed sailed into the blasts 

 borne on the currents deflected from the rocks, 

 and, with superb mastery of the air, whirled 

 and pirouetted as if in sheer delight. This was 

 on July 9, 1915. On July 10, 1833, Audubon 

 experienced a similar gale and he describes it 

 vividly. "The rain," he writes, "is driven in 



