Down north on the Labrador / by Wilfred T. Grenfell.

  • Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir, 1865-1940.
Date:
[1911]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Down north on the Labrador / by Wilfred T. Grenfell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fast, long after the fleets of fishing schooners had winged their way south, Anthony and his man Chesley had worked their little boat through the slob ice to a large island lying off in the Atlantic, in order to tail their traps and prospect for chances of winter game. They had carried with them, as they always did in the boat, their sleeping bags and some food, in case they were benighted. For they were careful men, having little ones at home depending on them. It was, however, this very fact which now betrayed them. The northern sky loomed very angry when they left, and in their little sailing skiff they had shipped enough water to wet their clothing well before they landed on Sandy Point. It seemed too hard to turn back now; so, hoping against better judg- ment that the weather would get no worse, they hauled their boat above high water line, while they went around the big, long island tailing their traps. They had calculated on having plenty of time to recross the arm of the sea before dark. But, alas 1 even before they got back to their boat the sky broke, and a hurricane of wind leaped down upon them, so that the water was in an instant a mass of smoke and drift. The intense cold froze their already wet clothing. They tried