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sent to jail for the crime of barratry. The Mission super- 

 intendent accepted the position of agent for Lloyd's. 



1904. A new doctor's house was built at Battle Harbour. 

 The steam-launch Julia Sheridan had to be sold. She was 

 replaced by a ten-horse-power kerosene launch called by 

 the same name. An orphanage was built at St. Anthony 

 hospital to accommodate fifteen children. A building was 

 also added for teaching loom work and general carpentering 

 with lathe work, and a teacher engaged. A society for 

 writing personally to lonely families, and regularly sending 

 them good literature, likely to instruct and help them, was 

 successfully organized. 



1905. A doctor was appointed at the request of the 

 people on the Canadian Labrador, with headquarters at 

 Harrington, near Cape Whittle, on the north side of the 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence. The first schooners were built 

 at the lumber mill, which is now flourishing and helping 

 to maintain some one hundred families. During the sum- 

 mer two consulting surgeons from Boston joined the hos- 

 pital steamer to help in the work. Through the generosity 

 of Mr. Andrew Carnegie, between thirty .and forty small 

 portable libraries, each containing from fifty to one hun- 

 dred books, were distributed along the coast. A fox farm 

 was started in the hope of inducing a profitable industry 

 in the breeding of the more valuable furs. 



1906. Through the help of friends in Montreal and 

 Toronto, a new hospital and a doctor's house were built at 

 Harrington ; a second kerosene launch, called the Northern 

 Messenger, was given for the work there. New dog-sledges 

 and teams were also given by the Montreal Weekly Witness. 

 Some new buildings were erected at St. Anthony, including 



