Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-08-20
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sionaries are not only leaders and teachers,
but they virtually control them as so many
slaves. paving them what they like Tor
their frrz and conducting every transac-
ton OF purchase and sale at outragcously
low and high valuations,
This may be Christianity to the heathen,
but il seems q much-like heathenish bust
ness with pretentious Christianity. During
July, August. and September there are al.
ways busy scenes here; but they are all
connected with preparing and dispatching.
fish. chiefly the cod. This Is wholly Sc
cured by "shore" fishing. there being
no fishing whatever on - banks" along the
Labrador coast. Herring is principally
used for bait, though the launce, and 10
much greater degree than the launce, tho
capelin, in the absence of herring, are also
used.
The shore Of Indian Harbor consists Of
an irregular series OF broadly-arched
shelving rocks. There is nothing in sight
but harbor, huts. sea, rocks, vessels Their
crews. Esauimaux, and fish. More vessels
are mOored 10 huge staples imbedded IN
these rocks than by anchor. All vessel
requires for wharfage ~ hawsers and sta
pies. They are run alongside these natural
piers, moored, and the work of wheel
ing the fsh in creaking barrows 10
the washhOusesn begins. From these
they 90 npon the rocks for drying
and curing. Piles like small hay
stacks are often seen, and for more than
two miles of shore the entire harbor takes
on n pale ye'lowish tint Of curing fish, as
n strange temporary fringe to the purple
darkness of the black and barren stone be-
hind.
THEIR HARVEST.
Boats are constantly arriving with their
loads of fresh fish; frequently hundreds
will come rushing in pell-mell together, 10
escape sudden squalls outside, and brigs,
brigantines. and schoOners are daily set
TING sail for the south. slowed 10 the gun
wales with the ripened harvest OF these
shores.
Hamilton inlet has other features Of in
terest besides It's greasy Esquimaux and Is 5
fish Behind the numberless picturesqu e
islands at its mouth. IL stretches back t(r
fully l5O miles. the expanses Of Lake Mel
Vile and Goose bay included, q vast lantl-
locked inland sea; and from thence its
windngs are followed for hundreds of miles
10 It's river source. but q short distance from
Seven Islands bay at the mouth OF the St.
lawrence: forming, with afew port0ges. un-
doubtedlv the longest canoe route m the
world. Midway between It's source and tue
Atlantic are fals yariOuSly stated 70 oe
from 400 20 1000 feet in height. al the feet
OF WillCn tue great river ~ conn ~ ,t'i iiitt
n narrow corge 800 feet deep, through
which it leaps in mighty cataracts
tor distance Of thirty nnles. Al
Rigoulette, some sevcnty-iye miles
above Indian Harbor. where the inlet IS
narrowed between tremendous cliffs at q
point called the Narrows, Is n trltling Es-
qumaux settlement, and one of tho an
cient Hudson Bay Company's trading
posts. Al the way FROM Rigoulettc to the
sen gigantic masses of stone frown above
the bay Behind these 10 the south IN lit
tie pockets of valleys there are, an told,
perhaps twenty acres Of ground underslck k
" cultivation. and this district is proudly
termed the garden-spOt of the Atlantic
Labrador coast!'
In all this 500 miles Of coast line may be
found unbrokcn aerial heachcs of boulders,
sand. shells, fossilizations. ten, twenty,
thirty. and even forty feet above the pres
ent sea level. How many centuries, or
ages. have been required TO accomplish
this upheayal. which nayIgatOrH tell me -
clearly noticeable 30 q startling degree all
along the northern hemisphere, or at what
rate the oceans are subsidlng. for there ~
certainly an upheaval of the land or dis
placement of the sea, would form a most
curious, and perhaps valuable. subject for
scientific attention and rcyealment.