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274 Life and Nature in Southern Labrador. [March, 
John Goddard, the “ King of Labrador,” who lived on a point of 
land three miles west of Caribou island. She was a famous hun- 
ter, would go out in a boat, shoot a seal and dress it, making 
boots and moccasins from the skin. Whether these Esquimaux 
had strayed down from the north or, as I suspect, were the rem- 
nants of their people who may have inhabited the entire coast 
from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the arctic regions, deserves fur- 
ther investigation. 
Few mammals were to be seen. The deer and caribou were 
confined to the mainland. On our island was a white fox, or 
rather a blue one, for his summer pelage was of a slate color. 
His burrow was situated in a hill side behind our house. He 
would prowl about our camp at night, and he might have known 
that it was unsafe to come within reach of our guns. His skin 
undoubtedly adorns the museum of the Lyceum of Natural His- 
tory of Williams College. 
A weazel also visited our camp. The otter frequents the 
brooks at the head of Salmon and Esquimaux rivers. In winter 
they rarely come outside, 2. 2., to the coast. 
It is well known that in Newfoundland the bears, especially 
those living near shore, will eat fish, their diet being mixed, and 
such bears are more savage than those.in the interior which 
live chiefly on berries and ants. While on Caribou island a fish- 
erman living a mile and a half from us had his sea-trout nets 
invaded by two old bears accompanied by a young one; at low 
water they would walk out to the nets, tearing them apart in 
order to eat the fish. 
Speaking of trout, there are two kinds; one living in the 
brooks and lakes, the other the sea trout, a handsome fish about 
twelve inches in length, whose food we found consisted of a sur- 
face-swimming marine shrimp, the Mysis oculata, which lives in- 
immense shoals. The sea trout is taken in nets, and so far as 
we experimented do not, in salt water, rise to the fly. 
Although it was now the 15th of July the warmer summer 
weather had not yet come, we were told by the people on shore. 
There is, however, scarcely any spring in Labrador. The rivers 
open and the snow disappears by the roth of June as a rule, and 
then the short summer is at once ushered in. 
Potatoes and especially turnips are raised without much diffi- 
culty as far north as Caribou island. Rhubarb is said to do well 
x -~ farther up the coast towards the Mecatina islands. Among the 
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