Six months of a Newfoundland missionary's journal, from February to August, 1835 / [Edward Wix].

  • Wix, Edward, 1802-1866.
Date:
1836
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Credit: Six months of a Newfoundland missionary's journal, from February to August, 1835 / [Edward Wix]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Martin Wood, who, in addition to his usual | labours at Petty Harbour, pays monthly visits to the people of his old charge upon this south shore of Conception Bay, and again at Pouch Cove, near Cape Francis. After attending and assisting at a marriage which he was solemnizing, I crossed through the ‘‘ slob ice,” which was very thick in Conception Bay, to Port de Grave, four leagues, in three hours. This is the centre of the mission of the Reverend Charles Blackman. One of his circuit churches, that of St. Mark’s Church, at Bare Need, requires enlarging. I had been more for- tunate in my passage across the bay than three young men of St. John’s, who under- took it on the same day with myself, in another boat: they were obliged to leave it at a by-place along the shore, after it had been fixed several hours in the ice. [ was confined aday at Mr. Biackman’s hos- pitable house, by a snow-storm, but, on the morning of Friday, 20 —-We took a heavy mallet,