A LAND OF ETERNAL WARRING 



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MY I.E:ADING ESKIMO DOG, C^SAR : BATTLK HARBOR, LABRADOR 



on the coast was from the north window 

 of a tiny building put up by pious hands 

 for rehgious services in summer. In this 

 two large kerosene lamps used to be 

 sw^ung round to face the north windows 

 every dark night in the fall of the year, 

 to be a literal guide to the poor schooners 

 trying to make a safe anchorage on a 

 very dangerous part of the coast. Once 

 because this light was out I had to steam 

 to my anchors for 24 hours to save the 

 ship, while all of seven schooners an- 

 chored near were driven on the rocks. 



For our own consumption we still get 

 plenty of herring, and they are the 

 largest, fattest, and sweetest in the 

 world. As an old resident of Yarmouth, 

 England, one should know something 

 about herring as an article of diet. 



Practically no use is made of the bil- 

 lions of capelin that can be bailed out of 

 the sea with a dip net. That they could 

 be preserved profitably there is no ques- 

 tion. 



The other sea denizens of value that 

 are exploited at present are whales and 

 seals. The former are not in any great 

 abundance, and the factories do not re- 

 turn more than the outlay that such a 

 speculative business calls for. The hump 

 is the commonest of our whales, a 

 smaller animal than the rest, and not 

 nearly so valuable as the larger sulphur- 

 bottom, or the occasional sperm that 

 strays into our waters. 



From 50 to 100 whales is a paying 

 season, and as with the hogs at Chicago 

 there is very little wasted, even the 



