UP TO CAPE YORK On Sunday, July 19, we sent a boat ashore at Point Amour Light with telegrams back home--the last.

I wondered what my first despatch would be the following year.
At Cape St.Charles we dropped anchor in front of the whaling station.
Two whales had been captured there the day before, and I immediately bought one of them as food for the dogs.

This meat was stowed on the quarter-deck of the _Roosevelt_.

There are several of these "whale factories" on the Labrador coast.

They send out a fast steel steamer, with a harpoon gun at the bow.