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Prof. Delyiiry had an elaborately equipped electroscope. 



Whilst Dr. King was in charge of the entire expedition and 

 had an eye upon all, nevertlieless he had a 4-inch Cooke telescope 

 for visual work, and was to note the time of the various contacts. 

 Mr. Pope was to give time signals. Mr. Plaskett required the as- 

 sistance of Messrs. Near, Howell, Maybee and several others. 



But the clouds came l)etween whilst God passed by. It was 

 all over. Dr. King, stood the shock of disappointment manfully. 

 No murmur came from his lips. He said : ' ' You have all been 

 faithful. We liave done our best." 



It was not long till the instruments, which had taken us weeks 

 to install, were in the hold of the King Edward again and we were 

 off for home. Captain CVowe, of the S.S. Brierdeen, and Mr. 

 Buchan, chief engineer, took Dr. Marsh, Mr. Howell, Mr. Maybee, 

 and Mr. Jenkins for a spin in a little steam launch. We passed out 

 of North West River into the waters of Grand Lake, going suffi- 

 ciently far enough to see the bold point of Cape Corbeau. 



Aug. 31 — our last night on shore — will not soon be forgotten. 

 The kindness of Mr. Cotter will never be forgotten. Mr. and Mrs. 

 Maunder occupied the only bed in the post. Bear skins without 

 number were spread on the floor, and on these six of us slept — 

 Dr. Marsh against the wall, Mr. Jenkins next to him, Prof. 

 Stewart, Rev. Father Kavanagh, Dr. Chant and Prof. DelyUry. 

 A number of others fared the same way in other rooms. Mr. Col- 

 lins, the speechifier-punster and singer — the man who dug a hole 

 in the sea to bathe in — ^slept with Mr. Maybee in the old church. 

 (Some people sleep better in church than elsewhere.) Mr. Plaskett 

 and Mr. Near slept in one of the dark rooms and drew one of the 

 curtains of nig'lit over them. But even with that they were un- 

 comfortable and developed a cold, but not taking a hypo bath to 

 fix it, it vanished. 



On Sept. ist we arrived at Rigoulette and met Dr. Grenfell, 

 who is doing a noble work for a thousand miles along the Labrador 

 coast. Here Dr. King handed over to Dr. Grenfell the cash col- 

 lected at our Sunday services, and Mr. Jenkins discovered that he 



