Along the Labrador coast / by Charles Wendell Townsend.

  • Townsend, Charles Wendell, 1859-1934.
Date:
[1907], ©1907
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Credit: Along the Labrador coast / by Charles Wendell Townsend. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The ship is stopped, the mailboat is lowered, and rapidly picks its way among the ice blocks to the island, landing behind a huge berg that breaks the force of the sea. It soon reappears directly in the path of the sun, comes alongside, and we are off. It is now 9 p. m., and I am writing this on deck. Ahead is the salmon- coloured sky of sunset; on the right a line of ice; on the left dark rounded hills spotted with snow and shrouded in their cross valleys with fog. The water is smooth, for, as a sailor says, the ice is “ handy-by.” I turn in while it is still light at ten o’clock, and at once fall asleep, nor do I feel the shock and grinding of the vessel against the ice which wake my com¬ panion that night.