Starvation In Labrador

A Labrador corresponde t of the Journal de Quebec gives a heartrending acaount of tlie eondition of the people long the Labrador coast. The fisheries failed them last fall, and the traders who gave them provisión s in barter t'or their íish and oil abandoned the territory, uot caring to lot tho wretched people have goods on credit. Thus before the winter set in the population was left to starve, or Buhinst on !'sh offnl, for crops are impossible oa that sterile shore. Whole families have lived through the winter on rotten, half-frozen careasses of seals driven pshore by the iee floes. Others have kept body and soui together by devouring the flesh of the loup-marin, a species of seal, which in prosperonw times would be slrauned even by the dogs. Many deaths occurred from sheer starvatiou. Of five families, containing forty souls, in one setilement, only five survive. Sonrvy is epidoraic. The women haunt the shore like specters, pieliiug up the dead seal, whilethe raen and boys gather sea moss and shell-fish. The oorrespondent, a French misaionaiy, says: "E know several families who have eatc-n not only the snlted sea flsh put away for tho winter provender of their dog, bn teven thedogsthemselves. ïhose who huppened to have a stdek of provisiuns liave been compeüe.-l to go on short rations and sharo with their gjuot neiglibors. The people have been sluit out from theoutBidi world since September. Wheu thcy found death staring them in the face it was loo late to mnke their wauts known, for navigation :ui closed and thoy. were 200 leagues distant from Quebec, without any means of o'veiland communication in winter. " Tlie Lieiitenant Governor at Quebec, in answer ta this appeal, lias ordereil a qriaiitity of prcivisionrj to be nent to the coast, and clothing, medicine, ote, will follow immediately.