Along the Labrador Coast / by Charles Wendell Townsend.

  • Charles Wendell Townsend
Date:
1908
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Credit: Along the Labrador Coast / by Charles Wendell Townsend. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hope,” replied the skipper. This is a favourite joke along the coast. The skipper beguiled the time, meanwhile, by telling of his four ship- wrecks, and I wondered whether he was not a Jonah. Suddenly we found ourselves in the middle of a narrow tickle, between a rock and the main island, with surf on either hand. How the skipper managed to strike the middle of this narrow passage is more than I can under- stand, unless instinct, an instinct gained by long experience on these treacherous shores, guided him. I half-suspect, however, that it was merety good luck. We were soon in the familiar basin of Battle Harbour and left the fog outside.