A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador An Account Of The Exploration Of The Nascaupee And George Rivers By Mrs. Leonidas Hubbard, Junior
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When At Last We Assembled For Supper It Was Nearly 10 P.M., And The
Stars Were Coming Out Over Mount Sawyer.
The meal was a quiet one,
for all were tired, and well content to listen in silence to the
music of the river, as softly the night-gloom gathered unto itself
the wilderness.
CHAPTER IV
DISASTER WHICH THREATENED DEFEAT
Friday morning was warm and bright. It seemed wonderful to be
having so much fine weather in Labrador, and not a fly or mosquito
as yet. The one nuisance we had met was mice or lemmings. They
had been busy with my hat in the night, and when I came to put it
on that morning I found there was a hole eaten in the crown and a
meal or two taken out of the brim. There seemed to be thousands of
them, and they ran squealing about everywhere, great fat fellows,
some of them as big as grey squirrels. The ground was so
perforated with their holes that it reminded one of a porous
plaster.
While the outfit was being brought up I walked along the shore
watching the rapids. The men did not like to see me go near the
river at all except when in the canoe, and warned me against going
to the rapids. I promised to be careful, but not to keep away
altogether, for they grew more and more fascinating. I wanted to
be near them and watch them all the time. They were so strong, so
irresistible.
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