238 LABRADOR 
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 steam-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’étre 
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. 
