160 SPORT IN NEWFOUNDLAND 



Sydney and Port aux Basques, Newfoundland, 

 a distance of a hundred miles. 



I would recommend any one who is taking 

 this route, and is not a total abstainer, to pro- 

 vide himself with a bottle of whisky, for Maine, 

 through which a good portion of the journey 

 lies, is a teetotal state, and even on board the 

 Bruce not a drop of any form of liquor, even 

 beer, was allowed to be served until the steamer 

 was under way. 



Getting away at eleven o'clock, and after a 

 rather rough passage, for the Bruce is only 

 about 800 tons, we arrived at Port aux Basques 

 at 7 a.m. on the 17th. 



It was a lovely morning, and the rocky shores 

 of Newfoundland looked particularly wild and 

 attractive in the bright sunshine. Port aux 

 Basques is a small settlement, and so far as I 

 could ascertain does not contain an hotel, but 

 no doubt some form of lodging-house exists, 

 where, as throughout the island, the visitor 

 would be given a warm welcome and whatever 

 was going, be it little or much. 



The train was waiting for the steamer. The 

 line is a narrow-gauge one, but the cars were 

 quite comfortable, and the prospect of seeing 

 a new country is always attractive. But how 

 we did bump over that line ; whether it was the 

 fault of the laying of the permanent way or the 



