The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-10
UP In LABRADOR.
THE REPORT OF 4 RECENT
VISITOR
Who Has Been There More Than
Once.


The mantle of winter has already be-
gun to shroud the whole length OF
Labrador The first snow in the north
fell on the 31st of August, and to-day
some has fallen here, with very
heavy gale of wind. The barometer
fell to the lowest this summer. viz:
2S.S inches. Their has hardly been any
frost at night yet in fact we have en-
joyed a phenomenally fine fall. The
mosquitoes have only just left US ana
still belated tourists come down in the
mail. To my mind October Is the
month to take the round trip on the
mail steamer. You can then get some
idea Of what q green sea means. ana
I know that half an hour on headland
to-day watching the seas would DO
tired city refugee more good than a
week of that flat calm and flies of Au-
gust. Everywhere now the berries
are ripe The bakeapple or cloudoerry
is especially plentiful this year. Inc
various varieties of blueberries are IN
countless thousands, the ground III
places being so thickly covered "lth
the luscious dwarf variety as to make
one think of Turkey carpet especial
Nv where the intervals are hidden by
the still more brilliant cranberrles'
Many barrels OF these are being ex-
ported, so I hear annually for making
DIVES. There would seem enough or
these berries in Labrador to paint the
map red" The cartridges. or more ac-
curately, the willow grouse, ae now
seeking the high barrens. so that we
can get at them, and the young are
sizeable for the pot Nine fell 10 my
gun In two hours from the anchorage
(and back to the ship yesterday, on
a windy day these make very ex-
cellent shot and averitable boon as
change from a fish diet Geese and
black duck are now coming out from
their inaccessible fastness in the In
terror to feed on the marshes and in
the shallow inlets, while those DUCKS
that breed beyond our reach in the
north are now commencing the south
ern migration, and so when strong
head wind throws their line of flight
near the shore, they too come in reach
of the gunner and are kindly welcomed
to our festival boards. Coming into
Bateau last Saturday from the north
we anchored at p. m. and we rowed
off for an attempt to get a Sunday
dinner. / was fortunate enough to get
a good shot at some geese, killing TOUR
with the first barrel and knocking
down two more with the second. AS,
however. the birds fell in large lake,
as il was getting dark and I had to
swim for all the birds, I was unlucky
enough to lose two of them. These
birds are now so heavy that before L
had reached the boat agin I was re-
ioicing however, that there were only
four to drag While speaking OF BIRDS,
was struck with the fact that EnoW
Bunting eggs are so common in the
neighborhood of Cape Chidley.
The fishery on the whole has been
sood one. In the Straits and Gulf and
in one or two East Coast stations the
catch has been exceptionally good
Thus while some are crying over the
falling fisheries, others are crying that
too much fish has been caught, in spite
of the fact that fewer men than for
MANY wears are engaged in it, and that,
therefore, the price will be low. Some
are calling for the abolition of the
cod-trap as threatening ruin to
the country. Yet no one is calling for
abolition of guns because the game is
getting less or of white visitors to Lab
rador at all because the Eskimo are
@getting less Its the law maintains in
GreenIand). Only one man seems to
be calling for the abolition of netting
in the rivers to save the salmon. Oc-
casionally one hears groWl that the
steamers are the cause of the steady
decrease of the Labrador catch of seals
That a scientific enquiry into the rela-
ton of these causes and results would
he valuable Their can be no doubt, but
what Is even more needed is the carry
ing out of those deductions that have
taken the form of laws already. THAI
much fish is lost every year because
ther is no cold storage of bait is ap.
parent. This tells most against the
poor hook and-line men. For when tht
bait is in, it is In such quantities tina
the fish won't hook, and when the bai
is gone Their is only q lead jigger tt
offer them. At a central station like
Bateau cold store would be in reacf
of many hundreds of fishermen ant
would be at a place where there is {
great need for it, as the fall hook fish
ing is always expected to beg God there
Many men never came here at least fo
many years; many more boys were do
ing mems work, and vet many of thu
planters went short-handed.
While one Is sorry to see the mel
seeking work on the land, as thest
fisheries are nursery for good sail
ors, and the sea is our British birth
right( what wok ashoe can approach
a life on the sea?), one is glad to SCI
some Of the poor Eskimos who hav
been exploited and expatriated TO
show purposes coming back, though a
usual the Newfoundland government
has to pay the bill for their passage
In the interest of all parties and TO
humanitys sake, we are helping t,
someone get new law prohibiting thi
framed and passed as soon as pos
sible. If one wants to see the Eskim
at his best he should visit a Moravial
station for the civilized specimen an,
I presume the Arctic highlands for tn
real raw material. The musical capa
cities of the Eskimo have often beef
commented on, but the length of tn
words are a sore hindrance to the maj
who has to write them. Think of tn