IN AUDUBON'S LABRADOR 



visit the islands. Forty were shot between St. 

 Augustine and Old Fort in the winter of 19 14- 

 15. These are the woodland caribou and also 

 the smaller barren ground or Cabot's caribou, 

 a form distinctive of Labrador and named by 

 Dr. Glover M. Allen after Mr. W. B. Cabot, 

 the well-known Labrador explorer. I was so 

 fortunate as to obtain a pair of antlers of this 

 caribou taken at Blanc Sablon. The eyes of the 

 old man Robin sparkled as he spoke of the 

 pleasures of dog-sledding and of the winter's, 

 hunt. 1 



Shecatica Inlet is a good example of the 

 fiordal character of this coast. Daly ^ quotes 

 the description of the coast of Norway from 

 Trondhjem to Bergen, as given by J. D. 

 Forbes in "Norway and its Glaciers," as ap>- 

 plicable to the southern part of the eastern 

 coast of Labrador. It also applies to this 

 southern coast. Forbes says that a series of 

 inlets penetrates "in all directions a low, bare, 

 rocky land, partly island, partly continent, 

 nowhere rising but to a very small height 

 above the sea, and so monotonous in charac- 



1 The Geology of the Northeast Coast of Labrador, Bulletin 

 Museum of Comparative Zo6logy, Harvard College, vol. 

 XXXVIII, p. 210. 



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