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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
AND REMINDER 
Vol. XII 
Manchester, Mase, Friday. July 31,°1914 
No. 31 
TYPICAL BIT OF SHORE LINE—SHOWING HARBOR ENTRANCE 
Labrador—A Land Little Known to Tourists 
By DR. ROBERT SCOTT CATHERON 
‘*Now, brothers, for the icebergs 
Of frozen Labrador, 
Floating spectral in the moonshine 
Along the low, black shore! 
Where like snow the gannet’s feathers 
On Bradors rocks are shed, 
And the noisy muss are flying 
Like black scuds overhead. 
‘*Where in mist, the rock is hiding, 
And the sharp reef lurks below. 
And the white squall smites in summer, 
And the autumn tempests blow; 
Where through gray and rolling vapors 
From evening unto morn, 
A thousand boats are hailing. 
Horn answering unto horn,’’ 
—The Fisherman—Whittier. 
popular conception of Labrador as a land of bleak 
shores and unending desolation. Jacques Cartier, who 
visited the coast in 1534, was even more emphatic in con- 
demning it. He says—‘Ii the soil were as good as the 
harboroughs are, it were a great 
Commoditie; but it is not to be 
called the new land but rather 
stones and wilde cragges, and a 
place fit for wilde beasts, for in 
all the North Land I did not see 
a cartload of good earth. * * * * 
To be sure, I believe that this 
was the land that God allotted 
to Cain.” 
That there is some basis for 
the opinion of these and other 
writers no one could deny, but 
I QUOTE this poem because it gives so perfectly the 
they told but a fragment of the AN ICEBERG 
story. Had they also spoken of the lakes and streams cover- 
ing one quarter of the surface of the country and teeming 
with trout and salmon, of a shore line rising sheer anu 
majestic from the sea, of sheltered harbors and deep 
fjords stretching many miles inland, of the countless herds 
of caribou and the abundant small game they would have 
given a more accurate picture of a country sufficiently 
attractive to bring those who have once visited it back 
year after year. 
The tourist desiring to visit Labrador must go by the 
way of Newfoundland, which is reached by water by the 
Red Cross line from New York, by the Ked Cross and 
Furness lines from Halifax, by the Allen line from Phila- 
delphia and the Black Diamond lines trom Montreal. If 
a rail journey is desired passengers can go by the way 
of Sidney, Cape Breton, whence a steamer will take them 
across Cabot Straits in six or seven hours, to Port-aux- 
Basques. From this point the Reid Newtoundland rail- 
road runs to the, beautiful Bay of Islands, the starting 
point of the western boat to Labrador, and St. Jolin’s the 
starting point for the eastern boat. 
As the steamers make about one hundred calls on the 
round trip it is possible for the casual visitor to see a 
great deal of the country; yet 
to really know it, one would 
have to choose some other meth- 
od of travel. 
The ideal way, of course, 
would be to have a small schoon- 
er, preferably with power and a 
liaulye puot, the latter on account 
of the inaccurate charting of 
the coast. His knowledge, to- 
gether with the fact that there 
is a safe harbor every ten miles 
along the Atlantic and the runs 
between all “inside runs,” pro- 
