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out on the pan and made a fire to get something to 

 eat and drink. Just as we were doing this, a sea 

 broke over the pan, and washed everything off except 

 ourselves. We had to jump in our boat and run her 

 before the gale until about four in the afternoon. 

 Just before dusk we caught up four other boats with 

 twelve men in them. We all hauled up our boats 

 on a large pan of ice, turned up the largest boats to 

 make a shelter from the wind, and made a fire. I 

 had two seals in my boat, and we pelted (i.e. skinned) 

 them to burn the fat, breaking up one of the smaller 

 boats, also, to use as fuel. We were on the ice drift- 

 ing up the bay all night. It was bitterly cold, in 

 spite of the big fire, and we had to keep dancing and 

 jumping to keep up our spirits, and to keep from 

 freezing. At dawn we were about five miles from 

 Heart's Delight. We hauled our boats over some 

 ice, and then rowed for land, which we reached at 

 nine o'clock. The people treated us with wonderful 

 kindness, doing all in their power to relieve us. 

 Under Providence they saved our lives, and we shall 

 never forget their kindness." 1 



Enough has been said to show the stuff these men 

 are made of, and there is not space here to multiply 

 stories that point to the same traits of character, and 

 that show the same self-sacrificing courage. Yet 

 with such the history of these perilous fisheries 



1 For the above account of this Trinity Bay disaster I am indebted to 

 the Rev. Dr. Moses Harvey, LL.D., F.R.C.S., one of the truest friends 

 the fishermen ever had. W. T. G. 



