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was hove- to heading eastward to avoid being drifted 

 upon the ragged coast about Cape Haven. A spar 

 was got ready and rigged out as a jury rudder, but 

 we were scarcely under way again when the wind 

 came on from the northeast, and in two or three hours 

 the rising sea had carried away the improvised rudder. 

 After this we hove-to again, the storm increasing to 

 almost hurricane violence for some thirty-six hours and 

 raising a heavy sea. The Roosevelt proved herself a 

 fine sea boat, lying to under double-reefed foresail 

 with the same ease as one of the best of our Banks 

 fishing schooners, and though she repeatedly rolled 

 her rail to the water, she did not ship a bucketful of 

 green sea. 



With the slackening of the gale followed some twenty- 

 four hours of chop sea off the mouth of Hudson Strait 

 and work was commenced on a second rudder which, 

 after two days of work under extreme difficulties, was 

 finally completed and hung, the men being flung back 

 and forth across the deck as they worked. The next 

 day we made the Labrador coast at what is perhaps the 

 worst locality in its northern portion, known as the Pot 

 Rocks. Threading our way through these in fog and 

 driving snow, with the breakers on either side, we kept 

 off the coast and had no distinct view of it until the 13th, 

 when it could be seen clearly enough for us to determine 

 that we were just north of Sagdlek Bay. As we were 

 now entirely out of water and had but a few tons of 

 coal left, I determined to put into Hebron in hopes 

 that we might secure a few tons of coal there. Dark- 

 ness fell while we were still several miles from Hebron, 

 but Captain Bartlett had been there some years before 



