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met the mail steamer going south. With much 

 difficulty we got our poor patient into the boat, 

 wrapped over and over in clean blankets ; two of us 

 in the stern sheets holding the large bundle in our 

 arms, while Captain Trezise and his men rowed us 

 down the harbour. Getting her up the steamer's 

 side was, however, a still less easy task, but was 

 at last accomplished, and she was soon ensconced 

 in a bunk in the saloon. Fortunately we had 

 decided that Nurse Williams should now return to 

 Battle Harbour to help Nurse Carwardine, for the 

 hospital there was now overflowing into huts around, 

 and our in-patients could be kept down to one or 

 two. The nurse therefore was able to tend to her 

 wants during the journey down. Eventually she 

 reached St. Johns, where the Rev. Dr. Harvey most 

 kindly met her, got her to the train and off to her 

 home ; so that her last wish w r as gratified, and she 

 passed away peacefully among her loved ones. 



At Cape Harrison we had a really hot Sunday, 

 the flat cabin reflecting the sun so fiercely from the 

 water that our very paint began to blister. Such a 

 chance was not to be lost, and the fisherfolk gathered 

 from far and near. One company, who journeyed 

 from their schooner in King's Arm, must have tra- 

 velled some ten miles to us, rowing first to Sloop 

 Harbour, then walking over the high cape, and then 

 rowing again to Webeck Island ; while even as we 

 went to and fro from the meetings, which, owing to 

 the numbers, we were obliged to hold on the shore, 



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