IN AUDUBON'S LABRADOR 



land and Labrador is caused by this disease." 

 Dr. Grenfell and his entire staff are continu- 

 ally striving to remove the cause of tubercu- 

 losis, but educational work of this kind is nec- 

 essarily slow. Dr. Arthur Wakefield, now at 

 the front, for several years traveled about New- 

 foundland and preached in every village from 

 the one text, "Open your windows and don't 

 spit." 



We sailed on through Chimney-Head Pas- 

 sage — "a passage only for those who know 

 it" the captain said. Here was an ancient 

 stone chimney formerly used in trying-out 

 seal-oil. We passed Napetepi Bay and Anse 

 k Malouin opposite, which was a "Bull" or 

 "Boule," a round rocky island. Then Lobster 

 Bay, nearly five miles deep leading up into the 

 low mountains, opened up. There is a portage 

 of only about a hundred yards at its head 

 which leads to Napetepi Lake. To the south 

 we could see for the first time the shadowy 

 mountains of Newfoundland. Rocky Bay and 

 Lydia Harbor were passed in turn. At the 

 latter place was a single house and the captain 

 told another sad tale of tuberculosis. Birds 

 were almost absent. In the morning's sail we 

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