Dr. Grenfell's Parish: The Deep Sea FishermanFleming H. Revell Company, 1905 - 155 páginas Duncan's purpose in writing this biography of Sir Wilfred Grenfell was to promote the man and his work for the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen on the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador. |
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... fishing- craft , must sometimes sail by guess and hearsay , by recollection and old rhymes . The gusts and great waves of open water -of the free , wide sea , I mean , over which a ship may safely drive while the weather exhausts its ...
... fishing- craft , must sometimes sail by guess and hearsay , by recollection and old rhymes . The gusts and great waves of open water -of the free , wide sea , I mean , over which a ship may safely drive while the weather exhausts its ...
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... Fish Rocks off Cape Charles in the dusk of a northeast gale . It is a jagged , black reef , outlying and isolated ; the seas wash over it in heavy weather . It was a bitter gale ; there was ice in the sea , and the wind was wild and ...
... Fish Rocks off Cape Charles in the dusk of a northeast gale . It is a jagged , black reef , outlying and isolated ; the seas wash over it in heavy weather . It was a bitter gale ; there was ice in the sea , and the wind was wild and ...
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... Fish Rocks . The big seas jerked un loose an ' flung un about , an ' many a one washed right over un ; but nar a sea could carry un off . ' Twas a wonderful sight t ' see un knocked off his feet , an ' scramble round an ' cotch hold ...
... Fish Rocks . The big seas jerked un loose an ' flung un about , an ' many a one washed right over un ; but nar a sea could carry un off . ' Twas a wonderful sight t ' see un knocked off his feet , an ' scramble round an ' cotch hold ...
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... fishing schooners , which fish the Labrador seas in the summer . It needed only the doctor's word to get the boon . Once a fisherman brought his con- sumptive son aboard - a young lad , with but a few weeks of life left . The boy wanted ...
... fishing schooners , which fish the Labrador seas in the summer . It needed only the doctor's word to get the boon . Once a fisherman brought his con- sumptive son aboard - a young lad , with but a few weeks of life left . The boy wanted ...
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... But you know my rule , John - no pay , no work . I can't break it for you , you know , or I'd have to break it for half the coast . " " Oh , ay ! " Tis all right . I wants un cured . I'll pay you when I sells me fish DESPERATE NEED 45.
... But you know my rule , John - no pay , no work . I can't break it for you , you know , or I'd have to break it for half the coast . " " Oh , ay ! " Tis all right . I wants un cured . I'll pay you when I sells me fish DESPERATE NEED 45.
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Página 97 - A wet sheet and a flowing sea, And a wind that follows fair. My foot is on my gallant deck, Once more the rover is free! And the "Larboard Watch...
Página 96 - Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph o er the waters wide, The exulting sense — the pulse's maddening play, That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way...
Página 51 - He managed to wait a day — no longer ; and the wind was still wild, the sea higher than ever ; there was ice in the road, and the fog was dense. Then out he went into the thick of it. He bumped an iceberg, scraped a rock, fairly smothered the steamer with broken water; and at midnight — the most marvellous feat of all — he crept into Battle Harbour through a narrow, difficult passage, and dropped anchor off the mission wharf.
Página 100 - I had ; for my clothing was growing to resemble the armour of an ancient knight more and more, every yard, and though in my youth I was accustomed to break the ice to bathe if necessary, I never tried running a race in a coat of mail. By the time I arrived at the trees and got out of the wind, my driver had a rubber poncho spread on the snow under a snug spruce thicket ; and I was soon as dry and a great deal warmer than before.
Página 45 - He knew nothing- of the reefs, the tides, the currents, cared nothing, apparently, for the winds; he sailed with the confidence and reckless courage of a Labrador skipper. Fearing at times to trust his schooner in unknown waters, he went about in a whaleboat, and so hard did he drive her that he wore her out in, a single season. She was capsized with all hands, once driven out to sea, many times nearly swamped, once blown on the rocks; never before was a boat put to such tasks on that coast, and...
Página 49 - In the course of time the Princess May was wrecked or worn out. Then came the Julia Sheridan, thirty-five feet long, which the mission doctor bought while she yet lay under water from her last wreck; he raised her, refitted her with what money he had, and pursued his venturesome and beneficent career, until she, too, got beyond so hard a service. Many a gale she weathered, off " the worst coast in the world...
Página 92 - He asked me riddles, thence he passed to other questions, for he was a boy who wondered, and wondered, what lay beyond those places which he could see from the highest hill. I described a street and a pavement, told him that the earth was round, defined a team of horses, corrected his impression that a church organ was played with the mouth, and denied the report that the flakes and stages of New York were the largest in the world.
Página 72 - When, at last, it comes, there is a sudden change of plan. — a wild rush to the more favoured grounds. It is in this scramble that" many a skipper makes his great mistake. I was talking with a disconsolate young fellow in a northern harbour where the fish were running thick. The schooners were fast loading; but he had no berth, and was doing but poorly with the passing days. " If I hadn't — if I only hadn't — took up me trap when I did," said he, "I'd been loaded an
Página 50 - Tis bound t' come, soon or late," said a cautious friend of the mission. " He drives her too hard. He've a right t* do what he likes with his own life, I s'pose, but he've a call t' remember that the crew has folks t