Six months of a Newfoundland missionary's journal, from February to August, 1835 / [Edward Wix].
- Wix, Edward, 1802-1866.
- Date:
- 1836
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Six months of a Newfoundland missionary's journal, from February to August, 1835 / [Edward Wix]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ti] 18 NEW HARBOUR. of Conception Bay, had died last spring, from the exertion and exposure consequent on going round the head of the bay at that inclement season on foot ; and ——— Hodge, the packet-man of Killigrews, was just re- covering from a most severe cold caught a few days before, from his having been washed overboard inagale. The Reverend John Burt, the Protestant episcopal mis- sionary at St. Paul’s, Harbour Grace, was dangerously ill, and I wished much to go to see him; but as the Reverend William Nisbett, of St. Mary’s Church, Heart’s Content, Trinity Bay, was with him, assist- ing him in his duties, I did not delay my journey tovisithim. Mr. Blackman kindly accompanied me to Spaniards’ Bay Beech. Here my guide and I struck into the woods. at eleven, a.M., and crossed the neck which divides Conception from Trinity Bay. I broke into the ice of one brook on my way, and by half-past seven, p.m. reached the house of Mr. Charles Nieuhook, jun., of New Harbour, a late worthy parishioner of the Reverend William Bullock, at St.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29349746_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
