The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09
ADVENTURES HAD IN LAND OF RA|NBOWS Things a Woman Saw in WiIdS
 of Labrador THE CARIBOU MIGRATION Rarely Beautiful Flowers In the Land of Frost-lce and Snow In Mid
 August-Some Colors
 Described.
THE CARIBOU MIGRATION

III Aiti itiildi hdblb JouiiANS 'AACN7AA Labrador last year Mrs. Leonidas Hub bard, Jr., saw many strange sights Per haps the most interesting of these was the caribou migration.
 "On August s. she writes in the bulle- tin of the American Geographical society," we came upon the migration and saw one herd in which there were thousands. We did not find them again in such num- bers, yet for fifty miles of our journey they were seen in smaller herds every day. and sometimes many times a day.
 "rhey were in summer dress of pretty brown, shading to gray and white on the under parts The anters were in velvet and of immense size, and males and fe- males were already herding together. Ap- parenuy they had been in occupation of the country for some time.
 "From Ptarmigan Point, on Lake Mich il<amats, to the head of Long Lake, on the George river the country was a net work of their trails, in the woodlands and bogs, cut deep into the soil, on the barren hillsdes broad, dark bands convergng to the crossing place at the river. North of the Height of Land We passed at in- terVals long piles of whitened antlers; and along the shore opposite our camp of August ID, d broad band of white caribou hair, four feet above the river, told of their crossing and recrossing while she'd ding their winter coats.
 "Only once in passing this part of the country did we find trace of their enemy, the wolf Throughout the journey we did not see any, but once, while running down the lower George river, a lonely cry came down to us from one high up on the mountainside.
 Other Game Also Abundant.
 "Through the caribou belt other game was more abundant also. Every day mother ducks with their flocks of little ones were seen, and a number of geese were taken. Gulls and looms were there in numbers, and ptarrngan were very plentiful as far as the head of the Barren Ground Water but beyond none were taken till we reached the post.
 "Along the lower part of each of the rivers signs of foxes in large numbers were found, and the Jennings on which they feed made us not little trouble. They were about in thousands and the ground was so perforated with their holes as to remind one of q porous plaster.
 Tn the lakes fish seems abundant, though we travelled too fast to do much fishing, and the nets were not once in the water. There are brook trout, ouna- inches and namavcush, some whitefsh, in the lakes; and in the lower George the sea trout and salmon.
 'The flowers are beautiful, though not so varied as in the home country. All along the Nascaupee blossoms of the Labrador tea filled the air with their fragrance and pale laurel grew in abund- ance. Now and then we crossed great beds of blossomng cloud berries and .4l.e. fI md Dn- berry showed their white blossoms.
 "One day while ascending the Wapu- stan river Gilbert handed me a dandelion and during the day l saw several of them, but did not again find them throughout the journey. On the upper Nascaupee the pink bells of the low cranberry showed in the carpet of glossy green and near the water the blossoms of the dewberry.
 Twin Flower Most Beautiful.
 eViolets grew along both rivers, but most beautiful of all was the twin flower. It's delightful fragrance first attracted my attention and looking down l saw the long trailing vines.
 At Ungava masses of this beautiful flower creep along the foot of the noun tain, while indoors in a pot on the win dow sill Mrs. Ford, the agents wife, treasures two tiny clover plants, almost afraid in her eagerness to believe that they really were clover.
 "During the journey which occupied two months, from June 27 to August 21, the weather was wonderfully fine. We were in camp only eleven days on ac- count of rain and the highest tempera- ture reached was 77 degrees r. in the shade The lowest recorded temperature was 90 degrees, though it was not the minimum reached
 'On the morning of August 10 there was ice an eighth of an inch thick on a basin of water. On the 18th, 14th and 15th of the same month we had snow fur ries.
 'Thunderstorms were rare, and com pared with those in the United States very mild. On many beautiful days we had passing showers. Labrador is land of rainbows. Nowhere have l ever seen their color so brilliant or so Variedly manifested. They did not always apepar in the form of a bow, and once l saw them lie like a beautiful veil along the whole length of Rainbow Hill on the upper Nascaupee
 ''There was a wonderful clearness in the atmosphere, which made landmarks miles away seem very near and clothed the far distant hills with color inde scribably beautiful. In the blue of the hills and the waters and the sky there was a peculiar silveriness, which. with the white of the reindeer moss and the