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preceded us by a couple of days. Dr. Bobardt and 

 the sisters were still busy and in good health. Hos- 

 pital had been full all the time, and thirty-nine in- 

 patients had been treated. Only one other death had 

 occurred in hospital a young girl from a schooner, 

 who had died of cellulitis from neglected sores, which 

 had assumed the characteristics of erysipelas. We 

 were delighted to hear that the fishery here had been 

 good. Mr. Hall, the agent, had again been first away 

 with a steamer loaded for market. After all the 

 time and attention he had so generously bestowed 

 on our work, by lending the launch when it could be 

 spared, by loan of men for the hospital, by enter- 

 taining nurses, doctors, and others, we could but re- 

 joice that his fishery had been a really successful 

 one. Our only regret now was that no hospital 

 could be kept open during this winter. 



Bad weather prevailed during our journey to St. 

 Johns. The Albert, in a gale, lost her boom, and 

 blew away some canvas, while the delays to the 

 Princess May on that coast, where no telegraphic 

 communication exists, gave rise to the impression 

 that she was lost with all hands, an impression 

 heightened by the fact that the mail steamer, which 

 had encountered the same gale in the Straits of Belle 

 Isle, had noticed in the sea a small boat's flag and 

 flagpole resembling ours. Unfortunately, therefore, 

 it appeared in the English dailies that we were miss- 

 ing. Except losing a good spirit compass and loose 

 deck paraphernalia, we had suffered no inconveni- 



