SHECATICA AND JACQUES CARTIEE 



bird of northern New Engleind, but their ways 

 were familiar. From the peak I could see four 

 little lakes or basins connected with rapids 

 and falls that flashed out white among the 

 spruces. Another peak much higher, to the 

 westward, then became my goal, and, after a 

 struggle through the thick woods and thicker 

 flies, I reached its summit and was well repaid 

 by the glorious view over a typical southern 

 Labrador country, bare and desolate in the 

 uplands, but thickly forested in the valleys. 

 In the little salt lake, perhaps six hundred feet 

 lower down and to the south, the Sea Star 

 looked like a speck on the unruffled water. 

 Other lakes not so freely connected with the 

 sea lay to the north and west. Arctic birds, 

 pipits and horned larks, alighted and walked 

 on the poised boulders of the summit of my 

 little mountain, and white-crowned sparrows 

 called and sang in the scrubby thickets lower 

 down. It would have been easy to retrace 

 my steps and thus find my way back to the 

 schooner, but a steep and narrow valley to the 

 west which evidently concealed a brook flow- 

 ing down to the inlet tempted me to return in 

 this way. One can have no better guide than 

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