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fore dark. At supper time we had about 25 miles to go. By dark we 

 had about 12 more. The ice, which had been only mediumly thick 

 all day, got very much worse after dark. Three of us sitting up for- 

 ward were kept busy all the time yelling back directions to Bart at 

 the wheel. We passed 34 bergs in an hour and a half and all of them 

 close enough to see and it was a dark night. By midnight we were 

 clear of the islands and the shoal water where the bergs had all 

 grounded. We hove her to under her foresail and had a grand mug- 

 up in the galley. 



About four o'clock Terr/ and Woody got her under way with the 

 help of Oily and we were right close to St. Anthony by breakfast. 

 During the night it had cleared and the wind had shifted to NW. 



i Position Straits of Belle Isle 

 Thursday, July 22nd < Weather Very clear 



I Wind Fresh northwesterly 



WE beat into St. Anthony with a spanking good northwester, 

 the rail under water and Jack sitting on the floor of the galley 

 amidst a mass of plates and cups. The harbor was small and a trad- 

 ing schooner anchored right in the middle of the narrowest part did 

 not make our entrance any the easier. Besides we had great trouble 

 making the anchors hold. As Terry expressed it, they just bounced 

 on the bottom. All hands went ashore and I at once found the cus- 

 toms officer and game warden combined in the person of one re- 

 markably nice man. I had a long talk with him and bought two 

 fishing licenses from him. He is the first intelligent customs officer 

 we have ever found in Newfoundland. Among other things he told 

 me that the fishermen considered the salmon, like the cod, a lee 

 shore fish. That is, on days the wind is blowing off shore the salmon 

 keep on up the coast and cannot be caught around the rivers in nets. 

 Nearly everybody bought something from the mission. The prices 



