IN AUDUBON'S LABRADOR 



had not learned to be afraid of man. The 

 mother soon appeared swimming leisurely 

 around a point, but, as soon as she caught sight 

 of the human intruder, she uttered a warning 

 note and rapidly swam away. Later, when 

 I came upon this same brood, they were no 

 longer unsophisticated, but dived at once and 

 made off. They had been warned that I was 

 dangerous. 



The St. Augustine River is one of the great 

 migration-routes of the Montagnais Indians. 

 By its waters and those of other rivers and 

 lakes with the intervening portage-paths long 

 traveled by the Indians, it is possible to cross 

 the height of land and reach the shores of 

 Hamilton Inlet and the North-West River 

 Post. I was told that a Catholic priest with 

 two Indians had reached the mouth of the St. 

 Augustine River after nine days' travel from 

 the North-West River Post. Indians with 

 their families make the trip in fifteen days. 

 Beckles Willson, in his "Life of Lord Strath- 

 cona and Mount Royal," says of this great 

 man, — then plain Donald Alexander Smith : 

 "At the end of April, 1848, a couple of guides 

 and a canoe were procured, and he ascended 

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