item: #1 of 20 id: 14014 author: Anonymous title: Dangers on the Ice Off the Coast of Labrador With Some Interesting Particulars Respecting the Natives of that Country date: None words: 2695 flesch: 67 summary: Towards noon of the 13th, the weather cleared up, and the sea was seen as far as the eye could reach, quite clear and free from ice; but the weather being very stormy, the Esquimaux could not quit the snow-house, which made them very low-spirited and melancholy. The latter were wrapt up by the Esquimaux in a large skin, and the former took shelter behind a rock, for it was impossible to stand against the wind, snow, and sleet. keywords: esquimaux; god; ice; missionaries; snow cache: 14014.txt plain text: 14014.txt item: #2 of 20 id: 14750 author: Cilley, Jonathan Prince title: Bowdoin Boys in Labrador An Account of the Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador led by Prof. Leslie A. Lee of the Biological Department date: None words: 26538 flesch: 68 summary: It was many days before their haggard appearance, with sunken eyes and dark rings beneath them, and their extreme weakness disappeared. When loaded, she still draws but little water, and is good in every way for the trip. keywords: bay; boat; bowdoin; camp; cary; coast; cole; day; days; eskimo; falls; feet; grand; harbor; island; labrador; lake; left; men; miles; night; north; party; place; river; shore; time; trip; vessel; water; way; wind; work cache: 14750.txt plain text: 14750.txt item: #3 of 20 id: 14756 author: Cullum, Ridgwell title: The Man in the Twilight date: None words: 123948 flesch: 93 summary: He paced leisurely down the great promenade towards the old Citadel with all its memories of great men, and the old time Buccaneers who had made history about its walls. Were the men who lived in those times great men? keywords: adam; bat; big; boys; bull; camp; chair; cut; dark; day; eyes; face; father; feller; figure; forest; girl; going; good; guess; hand; head; heart; hellbeam; labrador; life; like; look; man; mill; mind; moment; nancy; nature; need; notion; peterman; place; power; purpose; real; right; room; sachigo; set; skandinavia; smile; sort; standing; sternford; talk; tell; thing; thought; time; way; window; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 14756.txt plain text: 14756.txt item: #4 of 20 id: 14866 author: Wood, William title: Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador An Address Presented by Lt.-Colonel William Wood, F.R.S.C. before the Second Annual Meeting of the Commission of Conservation at Quebec, January, 1911 date: None words: 10987 flesch: 69 summary: I know, further, that man is generally cruel and a bully towards other animals. There is nothing to cause disagreement among the three main classes of people most interested in wild life--the men whose business depends in any way on animal products, the sportsmen, and the Nature-lovers of every kind. keywords: animal; birds; conservation; indians; labrador; land; laws; life; man; nature; north; people; quebec; sanctuaries; sport; way; white; wild cache: 14866.txt plain text: 14866.txt item: #5 of 20 id: 15134 author: Wood, William title: Supplement to Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador Supplement to an Address Presented by Lt.-Colonel William Wood, F.R.S.C. Before the Second Annual Meeting of the Commission of Conservation in January, 1911 date: None words: 9757 flesch: 62 summary: The forests, the wild beasts and wild birds of Labrador can be kept perpetually as one of the great assets of Canada; or they can he destroyed in a spirit of brutal and careless vandalism, with no permanent benefit to anyone, and with the effect of ruining the country and preventing its ever becoming what it otherwise would become. In my repeated stays on the coast of Gaspe and the islands of the Gulf, now running over a dozen years, I have had my attention forced to the hideous sacrifices of bird life that are constantly going on; for example in the Magdalen islands with their extraordinary array of shore birds. keywords: address; animals; birds; canada; caribou; destruction; game; interest; labrador; laws; life; men; number; park; sanctuaries; years cache: 15134.txt plain text: 15134.txt item: #6 of 20 id: 15190 author: La Trobe, Benjamin title: With the Harmony to Labrador Notes of a Visit to the Moravian Mission Stations on the North-East Coast of Labrador date: None words: 26417 flesch: 78 summary: Many houses at other stations are almost papered with pages from the _Graphic_ and _ It consists of irregular groups of little log houses, planted with little attempt at symmetry. keywords: bay; christian; church; congregation; day; dogs; eskimo; eskimoes; god; good; harmony; hebron; home; hopedale; house; labrador; men; mission; missionaries; missionary; nain; north; okak; ramah; service; ship; sledge; station; water; winter; women; zoar cache: 15190.txt plain text: 15190.txt item: #7 of 20 id: 15342 author: McLean, John title: Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory. Volume I. date: None words: 52109 flesch: 62 summary: This man told his fellows that he had had a communication from the Great Spirit, who assured him that he would become the greatest man in Hudson's Bay if he only followed the course prescribed to him, which was, first, to cut off their own trading post, and then with the spoil got there to hire other Indians, who should assist in destroying all the other posts the Company possessed in the country. These conjurors, nevertheless, are the greatest bunglers at their trade of any in the Indian territory; they practise none of the clever tricks of the Sauteux sorcerers, and are perfectly ignorant of the medicinal virtues of herbs and plants, with which the Sauteux and other Indians often perform astonishing cures. keywords: arrival; camp; canoe; chapter; charge; chief; company; country; day; days; distance; district; end; fort; good; house; ice; indians; interpreter; iroquois; lake; life; long; man; men; montreal; morning; mountains; natives; new; night; opponents; party; place; portage; post; present; purpose; river; time; water; way; winter; years cache: 15342.txt plain text: 15342.txt item: #8 of 20 id: 15436 author: Kohlmeister, B. G. (Benjamin Gottlieb) title: Journal of a Voyage from Okkak, on the Coast of Labrador, to Ungava Bay, Westward of Cape Chudleigh Undertaken to Explore the Coast, and Visit the Esquimaux in That Unknown Region date: None words: 26904 flesch: 75 summary: In the afternoon we were saluted by some shots from _Killinek_ Esquimaux, who were halting not far from the Ikkerasak, or straits, at the entrance of which we cast anchor about 7 P.M. 13th. Both the Nain and Okkak Esquimaux frequently penetrate far enough inland to find the rivers taking a westerly direction, consequently towards the Ungava country. keywords: anchor; bay; boat; brother; cape; coast; country; esquimaux; ice; island; jonathan; kohlmeister; miles; mountains; night; okkak; people; place; river; rocks; sea; shore; water; wind cache: 15436.txt plain text: 15436.txt item: #9 of 20 id: 16596 author: Wallace, Dillon title: Ungava Bob: A Winter's Tale date: None words: 67627 flesch: 83 summary: Thus it happened that the _Maid of the North_, spick and span, with a new coat of paint on the outside, and a good stock of provisions and articles of trade in her hold, sailed out of Halifax Harbour and turned her prow to the northward on the first day of September, and was plowing her way to the Labrador at the very time that Bob Gray with his mother and Emily were returning so disconsolate to Wolf Bight after hearing the verdict of the mail boat doctor, and Bob was making the plans that carried him into the interior. Mr. Forbes was at the wharf when Bob landed, and when he saw who it was exclaimed in astonishment: Why it's Bob Gray! keywords: bay; bear; bessie; bill; boat; bob; day; days; dick; dogs; douglas; emily; eskimos; fine; fire; fur; good; gray; half; home; ice; indians; john; lad; left; maid; man; men; micmac; morning; mother; new; night; river; snow; thinkin; tilt; time; tis; trail; way; white; wind cache: 16596.txt plain text: 16596.txt item: #10 of 20 id: 16809 author: Wallace, Dillon title: The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador: A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell date: None words: 55158 flesch: 81 summary: He has witnessed with his own eyes some of the marvelous achievements of Doctor Grenfell. He also wishes to acknowledge reference in compiling the book to old files and scrapbooks of published articles concerning Doctor Grenfell and his work, to Doctor Grenfell's book _Vikings of Today_, and to having verified dates and incidents through Doctor Grenfell's Autobiography, published by Houghton Mifflin & Company, of Boston. keywords: away; bay; big; boat; children; coast; day; days; doctor grenfell; dogs; end; father; fine; fishermen; fishing; good; harbor; help; home; hospital; ice; labrador; life; long; man; men; miles; newfoundland; night; north; people; pomiuk; sea; skipper; snow; summer; time; tom; trap; way; winter; work; world; years cache: 16809.txt plain text: 16809.txt item: #11 of 20 id: 16864 author: McLean, John title: Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory. Volume II. date: None words: 58793 flesch: 62 summary: | | Ye kill | Ki ne ta | Kim in a | Uz ugho ghay | Zee ool dir. | | | ay | tchin | | | | Thou | Ki ge oz | Ki ma tchin | Nodzed | Nan ul zay. keywords: ba |; bay; bi |; company; country; day |; e |; esquimaux; gan |; gay |; gha |; ghay |; giss |; having; hee |; idel |; indians; kan |; kay |; la |; mash |; men; miles; min |; minik |; natives; neesh |; net |; o |; oz |; pee |; river; sleep |; time; ud |; wa |; wao |; way |; winter; wok |; years; yetsh |; | bug; | ee; | ki; | ma; | mittana; | na; | nan; | nee; | ni; | shish; | ta; | tan; | tay; | tee; | thou; | tla; | tloo; | uz; | wan; | ye; | |; é | cache: 16864.txt plain text: 16864.txt item: #12 of 20 id: 19981 author: Duncan, Norman title: Doctor Luke of the Labrador date: None words: 70130 flesch: 92 summary: Oh, she sobbed, I'm _proud_ t' be the mother of a son! I started up. Sure, He didn't _have_ t' do it. keywords: away; coast; come; cove; davy; day; days; dear; doctor; eyes; face; father; folk; god; good; hand; harbour; head; heart; house; jagger; lad; lard; love; man; men; mother; night; sea; sister; skipper; skipper tommy; tell; thinkin; tickle; time; tis; tommy; tot; twas; way; wind; woman; world; zur cache: 19981.txt plain text: 19981.txt item: #13 of 20 id: 20059 author: Wallace, Dillon title: Left on the Labrador: A Tale of Adventure Down North date: None words: 56298 flesch: 89 summary: When all were seated, Skipper Zeb, in so big a voice Charley was sure the Lord could not fail to hear, asked a devout blessing upon the family, the stranger within their home, and upon the food. But Charley and the Twigs, old and young, found the stewed bear's meat, with Mrs. Twig's light, fluffy dumplings and the good bread and molasses, both satisfying and appetizing; and when Charley declined a third helping, urged upon him by Skipper Zeb, he declared that he was as full as though he had eaten a Christmas dinner. keywords: bay; bear; boat; boys; cabin; charley; dad; day; dogs; end; fine; fire; fix; gettin; good; home; ice; komatik; marks; mrs; rifle; right; skipper; skipper zeb; snow; thinkin; time; tis; toby; twig; twill; way; wind; winter; zeb cache: 20059.txt plain text: 20059.txt item: #14 of 20 id: 29374 author: Wallace, Dillon title: The Gaunt Gray Wolf: A Tale of Adventure With Ungava Bob date: None words: 56712 flesch: 81 summary: 'Ungava Bob' sounds interesting, said Shad. But how about Ungava Bob? keywords: bay; big; bill; bob; brother; canoe; come; day; dick; emily; end; fire; friend; good; gray; great; indians; injuns; lake; life; little; lodge; manikawan; men; mookoomahn; river; shad; sishetakushin; snow; spirits; thinkin; tilt; time; tis; trail; trowbridge; ungava; ungava bob; water; way; white; winter; wolf; year cache: 29374.txt plain text: 29374.txt item: #15 of 20 id: 35338 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: Marriage date: None words: 151995 flesch: 78 summary: Mr. Magnet was shaking his head very, very sagely, and saying: Rather a stiff job for little Marjorie, and her father was saying she would be steadier when she married. The two Carmel boys and a cousin, two greyhounds and a chow had come to see her off; they had made a brilliant and prosperous group on the platform and extorted the manifest admiration of two youthful porters, and it had been altogether too much for Marjorie Pope to admit it was the family custom--except when her father's nerves had to be considered--to go third class. keywords: air; aunt; business; children; come; coming; course; daffy; daughter; day; days; dear; end; eyes; face; father; find; fine; fire; girl; good; great; hair; half; hand; head; home; house; human; husband; idea; kind; lady; lee; left; let; life; london; look; looking; love; magnet; making; man; manner; marjorie; matter; mean; men; mind; moment; money; mother; movement; mrs; new; open; people; place; play; plessington; pope; research; rich; right; room; round; saw; second; self; sense; set; sir; snow; social; solomonson; sort; study; table; talk; tea; theodore; things; think; thought; time; trafford; voice; want; water; way; white; wife; women; work; world; years; young cache: 35338.txt plain text: 35338.txt item: #16 of 20 id: 39130 author: Duncan, Norman title: Dr. Grenfell's Parish: The Deep Sea Fisherman date: None words: 25444 flesch: 85 summary: It blinds men--they curse it, while they grope along: a desperate business, indeed, thus to run by guess where positive knowledge of the way merely mitigates the peril. I don't know why; it is inexplicable; but I am sure that the shiftless fellow and his wife had never an inkling that the circumstance was otherwise than commonplace and reasonable; and the child, had he lived, would have continued to dwell there, boy and man, in faith that the earth was good to live in. keywords: coast; day; doctor; fish; folk; good; grenfell; harbour; hard; home; ice; labrador; life; man; men; mission; newfoundland; night; sea; sir; skipper; time; tis; water; way; wind; winter; work; zur cache: 39130.txt plain text: 39130.txt item: #17 of 20 id: 4019 author: Wallace, Dillon title: The Lure of the Labrador Wild date: None words: 84866 flesch: 82 summary: From Goose Camp to the lake shore George carried the canoe, and Hubbard and I each a pack. Working industriously for half an hour before breakfast, Hubbard succeeded in landing a single small trout, which fell to me, while he and George ate thick pea meal porridge, of which they were very fond. keywords: away; bay; camp; canoe; caribou; come; country; course; day; days; eat; end; feet; find; fire; fish; flour; george; george river; good; goose; grand; half; home; hubbard; indian; labrador; lake; left; little; low; man; men; michikamau; miles; morning; new; night; northwest; post; river; shore; snow; tea; tent; thought; time; trail; trout; water; wind; work cache: 4019.txt plain text: 4019.txt item: #18 of 20 id: 47128 author: Duncan, Norman title: Billy Topsail, M.D.: A Tale of Adventure With Doctor Luke of the Labrador date: None words: 57012 flesch: 92 summary: In Which Teddy Brisk Escapes From the Wolfskin Bag and Determines to Use His Crutch and Billy Topsail Comes to the Conclusion that It Looks Bad_ In Which Doctor Luke and Billy Topsail Go North, and at Candlestick Cove, Returning, Doctor Luke Finds Himself Just a Bit Peckish_ keywords: archie; billy; billy topsail; black; boy; brisk; chapter; come; cove; cracker; day; doctor; doctor luke; dogs; floe; gale; good; harbour; ice; jonathan; lad; long; luke; man; mother; night; run; sam; sea; sir; snow; teddy; time; tis; toby; tom; water; way; weather; wind cache: 47128.txt plain text: 47128.txt item: #19 of 20 id: 48528 author: None title: The great probability of a North West Passage deduced from observations on the letter of Admiral de Fonte date: None words: 67976 flesch: 67 summary: _Bernarda_ directed by the Jesuits as to the Harbour where he meets _de Fonte_. From where _Bernarda_ came to with his Ship was one Hundred and twenty Miles to _ keywords: account; admiral; bay; captain; coast; country; course; discovery; east; eskemaux; expedition; fonte; hath; hudson; islands; lake; land; latitude; leagues; letter; new; north; northward; parts; passage; people; persons; river; schooner; sea; ship; south; spain; streight; time; voyage; water; west; year cache: 48528.txt plain text: 48528.txt item: #20 of 20 id: 9857 author: Wallace, Dillon title: The Long Labrador Trail date: None words: 79718 flesch: 76 summary: After a day's work through several small lakes or ponds, with short intervening portages, and a trail on the whole well defined and easily followed, we came one afternoon to a good-sized lake of irregular shape which Pete promptly named Washkagama (Crooked Lake). Through a valley in that direction was distinguishable, with a considerable interval between them, a string of small lakes or ponds. keywords: bay; big; camp; canoe; caribou; country; course; day; days; degrees; dogs; easton; end; eskimos; feet; fire; george river; good; half; hills; ice; indians; journey; komatik; labrador; lake; left; little; man; men; michikamau; miles; morning; nascaupee; nascaupee river; near; new; night; north; northwest; pete; place; point; portage; post; reach; richards; river; rock; seal; snow; spruce; tent; time; trail; water; way; white; wind; winter; work cache: 9857.txt plain text: 9857.txt