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With open water in spring the Albert returned, carrying 

 two additional doctors and nurses, together with fittings 

 and drugs for two small hospitals. One of these was not 

 only presented to the work by Mr. W. B. Grieve, the mer- 

 chant owner of Battle Harbour, but was got ready by him 

 for immediate occupation. The government of Newfound- 

 land supplied a well-skilled pilot for the ship, and excused 

 all dues of every kind. 



The second hospital, though sent down early in sections, 

 could not be erected and ready for use till the season was 

 nearly over. A smart little ^team-launch was sent out to 

 enable the visiting doctor to reach places too far distant in 

 the bays to be served by the large yawl or by her boats. 



At the present time, 1908, the Society has four hospitals : 

 one at Harrington on the Canadian Labrador, one at St. 

 Anthony on the northeast coast of Newfoundland, and the 

 original two at Battle Harbour and Indian Harbour. 

 Indian Harbour is situated on an island in the entrance 

 to Hamilton Inlet, two hundred miles north of the Strait 

 of Belle Isle; Battle Harbour, just where the Strait meets 

 the Atlantic Ocean. 



An experience of twenty years of work at sea among 

 fishermen has proved for me that the brotherhood of the 

 sea, and possibly the frequent looking of death in the face, 

 can transcend the animosity engendered between man 

 and man by sectarianism on the land. The raison d'etre 

 of the Mission is to commend to men who daily face the 

 perils and privations of the sea, the Gospel of Christ as 

 the practical rule of life. It labours to form no church. 

 It seeks to inculcate no submission to any theories or 

 shibboleths. It aims at adherence to no intellectual dogma. 



