Bryant, H: Journey to the Grand Falls of Labrador (Classic R

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Bryant, H: Journey to the Grand Falls of Labrador (Classic R

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Excerpt from A Journey to the Grand Falls of Labrador

We sailed from New York June 23d, on the steamship Portia, and arrived at St. Johns, Newfoundland, on the twenty-ninth of the same month. After an unexpected and vexatious delay here of over two weeks, we sailed from St. Johns on July 15th, on the small steamship Curlew, the boat engaged by the Newfoundland Government to carry the mails on the Labrador coast during the summer. After calling at several ports on the north-eastern coast of New foundland, our stanch little craft turned north, and, steam ing through the dense fogs of the Strait of Belle Isle, we soon caught our first glimpse of the Labrador coast. The four days' sail along this coast was the most enjoyable part of the voyage. Space will not permit me to make any extended reference to the novelty and grandeur of the scenery which formed so impressive an introduction to this rugged north-land which was to be the scene of our wanderings. The shores presented a bold, irregular line of hills, wild and desolate in their aspect, and for the most part entirely destitute of verdure their precipitous bases presenting bold headlands to the waves of the Atlantic. Icebergs soon became frequent. In one day I counted twenty-six. Our fellow-passengers, most of whom were engaged in the fisheries, viewed these Polar visitors with the indifference born of familiarity; but for my part, I regarded these majestic, luminous white masses with the keenest interest.

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