I rise long before day and work till nightfall, when I take a walk and go to bed.

I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children.

July 2. A beautiful day for Labrador. Went ashore and killed nothing, but was pleased with what I saw. The country is so grandly wild and desolate that I am charmed by its wonderful dreariness.

One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints.

From the very first day, I never had to get him out of bed to come to work.

I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.