Hudson, New Jersey,

March, 1861.

CONTENTS.

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CHAPTER I.
Cool and Novel,[1]
CHAPTER II.
On the Edge of the Gulf-Stream,[5]
CHAPTER III.
The Painter’s Story,[8]
CHAPTER IV.
Halifax,[15]
CHAPTER V.
The Merlin,[19]
CHAPTER VI.
Sydney.—Cape Breton.—The Ocean,[23]
CHAPTER VII.
The first Icebergs,[27]
CHAPTER VIII.
Newfoundland.—St. Johns,[30]
CHAPTER IX.
An English Inn.—The Governor and Bishop.—Signal Hill,[33]
CHAPTER X.
The Ride to Torbay.—The lost Sailor.—The Newfoundland Dog,[38]
CHAPTER XI.
Torbay.—Flakes and Fish-houses.—The Fishing-barge.—The Cliffs.—The Retreat to Flat Rock Harbor.—William Waterman, the fisherman,[41]
CHAPTER XII.
The Whales.—The Iceberg.—The Return, and the Ride to St. Johns by Starlight,[52]
CHAPTER XIII.
St. Mary’s Church.—The Ride to Petty Harbor,[60]
CHAPTER XIV.
Petty Harbor.—The Mountain River.—Cod-liver Oil.—The Evening Ride back to St. Johns,[65]
CHAPTER XV.
The Church Ship.—The Hero of Kars.—The Missionary of Labrador,[71]
CHAPTER XVI.
Sunday Evening at the Bishop’s.—The Rev. Mr. Wood’s Talk about Icebergs,[74]
CHAPTER XVII.
Our Vessel for Labrador.—Wreck of the Argo.—The Fisherman’s Funeral,[76]
CHAPTER XVIII.
Our First Evening at Sea,[80]
CHAPTER XIX.
Icebergs of the Open Sea.—The Ocean Chase.—The Retreat to Cat Harbor,[82]
CHAPTER XX.
Cat Harbor.—Evening Service in Church.—The Fisherman’s Fire.—The Return at Midnight,[89]
CHAPTER XXI.
After Icebergs again.—Among the Sea-Fowl,[93]
CHAPTER XXII.
Notre Dame Bay.—Fogo Island and the Three Hundred Isles.—The Freedom of the Seas.—The Iceberg of the Sunset, and the Flight into Twillingate,[96]
CHAPTER XXIII.
The Sunday in Twillingate.—The Morning of the Fourth,[103]
CHAPTER XXIV.
The Iceberg of Twillingate,[106]
CHAPTER XXV.
The Freedom of the Seas once more.—A Bumper to the Queen and President,[112]
CHAPTER XXVI.
Gull Island.—The Icebergs of Cape St. John,[115]
CHAPTER XXVII.
The Splendid Icebergs of Cape St. John,[121]
CHAPTER XXVIII.
The Seal Fields.—Seals and Sealing.—Captain Knight’s Shipwreck,[129]
CHAPTER XXIX.
Belle Isle and the Coast.—After-dinner Discussion.—First View of Labrador.—Icebergs.—The Ocean and the Sunset,[135]
CHAPTER XXX.
The Midnight Look-out Forward.—A Stormy Night.—The Comedy in the Cabin,[143]
CHAPTER XXXI.
The Cape and Bay of St. Louis.—The Iceberg.—Cariboo Island.—Battle Harbor and Island.—The Anchorage.—The Missionaries,[149]
CHAPTER XXXII.
Battle Island and its Scenery,[155]
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Mosses, Odors, and Flowers.—A Dinner Party,[161]
CHAPTER XXXIV.
Our Boat for the Icebergs.—After the Alpine Berg.—Study of its Western Face,[165]
CHAPTER XXXV.
The Alpine Berg.—Studies of its Southern Front.—Frightful Explosion and Fall of Ice.—Studies of the Western Side.—Our Play with the Moose Horns.—Splendor of the Berg at Sunset,[169]
CHAPTER XXXVI.
Ramble among the Flowers of Battle Island.—A Visit to the Fishermen.—Walk among the Hills of Cariboo,[179]
CHAPTER XXXVII.
After the Bay St. Louis Iceberg.—Windsor Castle Iceberg.—Founders Suddenly.—A Brilliant Spectacle,[184]
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
Sunday in Labrador.—Evening Walk to the Graveyard.—The Rocky Ocean Shore,[188]
CHAPTER XXXIX.
The Sail to Fox Harbor.—A Day with the Esquimaux, and our Return,[192]
CHAPTER XL.
A Morning Ramble over Cariboo.—Excursion on the Bay, and the Tea-drinking at the Solitary Fisherman’s,[196]
CHAPTER XLI.
Painting the Cavern of Great Island, and our Sail Homeward in a Gale,[200]
CHAPTER XLII.
After the Iceberg of Belle Isle.—The Retreat to Cartwright’s Tickle.—Bridget Kennedy’s Cottage, and the Lonely Stroll over Cariboo,[204]
CHAPTER XLIII.
The Iceberg of the Figure-head.—The Glory and the Music of the Sea at Evening,[210]
CHAPTER XLIV.
Cape St. Charles.—The Rip Van Winkle Berg.—The Great Castle Berg.—Studies of its Different Fronts,[214]
CHAPTER XLV.
The Sail for St. Charles Mountain.—The Salmon Fishers.—The Cavern of St. Charles Mountain.—Burton’s Cottage.—Magnificent Scene from St. Charles Mountain.—The Painting of the Rip Van Winkle Berg.—The Ice-vase, and the Return by Moonlight,[219]
CHAPTER XLVI.
After our Last Iceberg.—The Isles.—Twilight Beauties of Icebergs.—Midnight Illumination,[228]
CHAPTER XLVII.
Farewell to Battle Harbor.—The Straits of Belle Isle.—Labrador Landscapes.—The Wreck of the Fishermen,[236]
CHAPTER XLVIII.
Sketching the Passing Bergs.—The Story of an Iceberg,[241]
CHAPTER XLIX.
Drifting in the Straits.—Retreat to Temple Bay.—Picturesque Scenery.—Voyager’s Saturday Night,[264]
CHAPTER L.
Sunday in Temple Bay.—Religious Services.—The Fisherman’s Dinner and Conversation.—Chateau.—The Wreck.—Winters in Labrador.—Icebergs in the Winter.—The French Officers’ Frolic with an Iceberg.—Theory of Icebergs.—Currents of the Strait.—The Red Indians.—The Return to the Vessel,[267]
CHAPTER LI.
Evening Walk to Temple Bay Mountain.—The Little Iceberg.—Troubles of the Night, and Pleasures of the Morning.—Up the Straits.—The Pinnacle of the Last Iceberg.—Gulf of St. Lawrence,[274]
CHAPTER LII.
Coast Scenery.—Farewell to Labrador,[279]
CHAPTER LIII.
Western Newfoundland.—The Bay, the Islands, and the Highlands of St. Johns.—Ingornachoix Bay,[284]
CHAPTER LIV.
Slow Sailing by the Bay of Islands.—The River Humber.—St. George’s River, Cape, and Bay.—A Brilliant Sunset,[287]
CHAPTER LV.
Foul Weather.—Cape Anguille.—The Clearing Off.—The Frolic of the Porpoises.—The New Cooks.—The Ship’s Cat,[290]
CHAPTER LVI.
St. Paul’s Island.—Cape North.—Coast of Cape Breton.—Sydney Light and Harbor.—The End of our Voyage to Labrador, and around Newfoundland,[298]
CHAPTER LVII.
Farewell to Captain Knight.—On our way across Cape Breton.—A Merry Ride, and the Rustic Lover,[301]
CHAPTER LVIII.
Evening Ride to Mrs. Kelly’s Tavern.—The Supper and the Lodging,[306]
CHAPTER LIX.
Sunday at David Murdoch’s.—Scenery of Bras d’Or,[314]
CHAPTER LX.
Off for the Strait of Canso.—St. Peters, and the Country.—David Murdoch’s Horses, and his Driving.—Plaster Cove,[318]
CHAPTER LXI.
Adieu to David and Cape Breton.—The Strait of Canso.—Our Nova Scotia Coach.—St. George’s Bay.—The Ride into Antigonish,[322]
CHAPTER LXII.
New Glasgow.—The Ride to Truro.—Railway Ride to Halifax.—Parting with the Painter,[326]
CHAPTER LXIII.
Coach Ride from Halifax to Windsor.—The Prince Edward’s Man, and the Gentleman from Newfoundland,[329]
CHAPTER LXIV.
Windsor.—The Avon, and the Tide.—Steamer for St. Johns, New Brunswick.—Mines Basin.—Coast Scenery.—The Scene of Evangeline.—Parsboro.—The Bay of Fundy.—Nova Scotia and New Brunswick Shores.—St. Johns.—The Maine Coast.—Island of Grand Manan,[332]

ILLUSTRATIONS.

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No. 1.—VIGNETTE—ICEBERGS AT SUNSET,[1]
No. 2.—A LARGE ICEBERG IN THE FORENOON LIGHT NEAR THE INTEGRITY,[119]
No. 3.—AN ARCHED ICEBERG IN THE AFTERNOON LIGHT,[136]
No. 4.—ICE FALLING FROM A LOFTY BERG,[173]
No. 5.—ICEBERG IN THE MORNING MIST—WHALE-BOAT,[214]
No. 6.—ICEBERG IN THE STRAIT OF BELLE ISLE,[241]

AFTER ICEBERGS WITH A PAINTER.