Left on Labrador

Left on Labrador, by Charles Asbury Stephens

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Title: Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.'
Author: Charles Asbury Stephens

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LEFT ON LABRADOR
Or The Cruise of the Schooner-Yacht "Curlew" as Recorded by "Wash"
by
C.A. STEPHENS
Author of "Lynx-Hunting," "Fox-Hunting," "Camping Out," "Off to the Geysers," "On the Amazons," Etc.
Illustrated

[Illustration]

New York Hurst & Company Publishers

CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
Sequel to the "Graphite Lode."--The Fifteen Thousand Dollars, and how it was invested.--About the Yacht.-- The Schooner "Curlew."--Capt. Mazard.--Guard.--The Gloucester Boys.--"Palmleaf, Sar."--Getting Ready for the Voyage.--Ship-Stores.--The Howitzer.--The Big Rifle.--A Good Round Bill at the Outset 9
CHAPTER II.
Up Anchor, and away.--What the Old Folks thought of it.--The Narrator's Preface.--"Squeamish."--A North-easter.--Foggy.--The Schooner "Catfish."-- Catching Cod-Fish on the Grand Bank.--The First Ice.--The Polar Current.--The Lengthening Day.--Cape Farewell.--We bear away for Cape Resolution.--Hudson's Straits.--Its Ice and Tides 28
CHAPTER III.
Cape Resolution.--The Entrance into Hudson's Straits.-- The Sun in the North-east.--The Resolution Cliffs-- Sweating among Icebergs.--A Shower and a Fog--An Anxious Night.--A Strange Rumbling.--Singular Noises and Explosions--Running into an Iceberg.--In Tow.--A Big Hailstone drops on Deck.--Boarding an Iceberg.--Solution of the Explosions.--A Lucky Escape 45
CHAPTER IV.
The Fog lifts.--A Whale in Sight.--Craggy Black Mountains capped with Snow.--A Novel Carriage for the Big Rifle.--Mounting the Howitzer.--A Doubtful Shot.--The Lower Savage Isles.--A Deep Inlet.-- "Mazard's Bay."--A Desolate Island.--An Ice-Jam.--A Strange Blood-red Light.--Solution of the Mystery.-- Going Ashore.--Barren Ledges.--Beds of Moss.--A Bald Peak.--An Alarm.--The Schooner in Jeopardy.--The Crash and Thunder of the Ice.--Tremendous Tides 69
CHAPTER V.
A Dead Narwhal.--Snowy Owls.--Two Bears in Sight.-- Firing on them with the Howitzer.--A Bear-Hunt among the Ice.--An Ice "Jungle."--An Exciting Chase.--The Bear turns.--Palmleaf makes "a Sure Shot."--"Run, you Black Son!" 93
CHAPTER VI.
The Middle Savage Isles.--Glimpse of an Esquimau Canoe.--Firing at a Bear with the Cannon-Rifle.--A Strange Sound.--The Esquimaux.--Their Kayaks.--They come on board.--An Unintelligible Tongue.--"Chymo." 106
CHAPTER VII.
The Husky Belles.--We-we and Caubvick.--"Abb," she said.--All Promenade.--Candy at a Discount.-- "Pillitay, pillitay!"--Old Trull and the Husky Matron.--Gorgeous Gifts.--Adieu to the Arctic Beauties 125
CHAPTER VIII.
The Husky Chief.--Palmleaf Indignant.--A Gun.--Sudden Apparition of the Company's Ship.--We hold a Hasty Council.--In the Jaws of the British Lion.--An Armed Boat.--Repel Boarders!--Red-Face waxes wrathful.-- Fired on, but no Bones Broken 140
CHAPTER IX.
A Barren Shore, and a Strange Animal, which is captured by blowing up its Den.--Palmleaf falls in with the Esquimaux, and is chased by them.--"Twau-ve!"--"A Close Shave."--An Attack threatened.--The Savages dispersed with the Howitzer 162
CHAPTER X.
The Dip of the Needle.--The North Magnetic Pole.--A Kayak Bottom up, with its Owner Head down.-- Ice-Patches.--Anchoring to an Ice-Floe.--A Bear-hunt in the Fog.--Bruin charges his Enemies.--Soundings.-- The Depth of the Straits 186
CHAPTER XI.
"Isle Aktok."--A Sea-Horse and a Sea-Horse Hunt.--In High Spirits.--Sudden Interruption of the Hunt.--A Heavy Gun.--The Race to the Ledge-Tops.--Too Late.--A Disheartening Spectacle.--Surprised by the Company's Ship.--The Schooner in Peril.--Capt. Mazard bravely waits.--The Flight of "The Curlew" amid a Shower of Balls.--The Chase.--Left on the Islet.--A Gloomy Prospect.--"What shall we have for Grub to ate?"-- Wild-Geese.--Egging.--"Boom!"--A Sea-Horse Fire 200
CHAPTER XII.
The "Spider."--Fried Eggs.--The "Plates."--"Awful Fresh!"--No Salt.--Plans for getting Salt from Sea-Water.--Ice-Water.--Fried Goose.--Plans to escape.--A Gloomy Night.--Fight with a Walrus.-- Another "Wood-Pile."--Wade Sick.--A Peevish Patient and a Fractious Doctor.--The Manufacture of Salt 226
CHAPTER XIII.
More Salt.--Some Big Hailstones.--A Bright Aurora.--The Lookout.--An Oomiak heaves in Sight.--The Huskies land on a Neighboring Island.--Shall we join them?--A Bold, Singular, not to say Infamous, Proposition from Kit.--Some Sharp Talk.--Kit's Project carried by Vote 250
CHAPTER XIV.
We set up a Military Despotism on "Isle Aktok."--"No Better than Filibusters!"--The Seizure of the Oomiak.--The Seal Tax--A Case of Discipline.-- Wutchee and Wunchee.--The Inside of a Husky Hut.--"Eigh, Eigh!"--An Esquimau Ball.--A Funeral.-- Wutchee and Wunchee's Cookery.--The Esquimau Whip 267
CHAPTER XV.
Winter at Hand.--We hold a Serious Council.--"Cold! oh, how Cold!"--A Midnight Gun.--The Return of "The Curlew."--"A J'yful 'Casion."--A Grand Distribution of Presents.--Good-by to the Husky Girls.--A Singular Savage Song.--We All get Sentimental.--Adieu to "Isle Aktok."--Homeward Bound.--We engage "The Curlew" and her Captain for Another Year 291

INTRODUCTION.
Those of our readers who may have read "Camping Out," the first volume