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of the ship, when once secured, is all that would touch even without 

 the shore. The course of the little stream was traced to its source, 

 Caribou Lake, and little or no chance of contamination was found 

 and as the entire settlement uses this stream for their water supply 

 the General Greene proceeded to water in the following manner. 

 A hole was cut in the bottom of a can of about 1 gallon capacity of 

 such size as to snugly admit a coupling into which was screwed one 

 end of the ship's fire hose. The can was then wedged in the rocks in 

 such manner that the almost vertically falling water filled the can 

 and flowed into the fire hose which was led to the ship's tank. 

 Twenty-nine hundred and fifty gallons of water were taken aboard 

 in this manner in 8 hours. This gives a rate of approximately 370 

 gallons per hour, which probably approached the total flow of the 

 stream. 



The hospital described in the Sailing Directions for Newfoui l- 

 land, 1931 (H. O. No. 73), and previous publications no longer exists. 

 This building burned down several years ago and was never rebuilt 

 at Battle Harbour but was taken over by the International Grenfel 

 Mission and reestablished at Mary Harbour, at the head of St. 

 Lewis Sound, some 9 miles from Battle Harbour, This is vital in- 

 formation for vessels cruising in that vicinity. 



The General Greene completed taking on water at 1915, August 14, 

 and at 1930 sailed from Battle Harbour to complete the third and 

 last leg of the postseason cruise. Course was set for latitude 55° 19' 

 N,, longitude 50°21' W., the position of the next station, about 246 

 miles distant. On this run on August 14 and 15, several bergs were 

 sighted inside of Double Island and in St, Charles Channel entrance. 

 Three large bergs drifting in St. Lewis Sound and 15 scattered bergs 

 off the Labrador coast, as far east as longitude 52^59' W. At 

 0033, August 16, the General Greene occupied station 2014, the 

 first of a line of seven stations, to latitude 58°48' N., longitude 42° 

 59' W., about 70 miles south-southeast of Cape Farewell. From this 

 position a line of eight stations was run up the continental slope of 

 Greenland to a position 8 miles southeast of Cape Farewell, arriving 

 there at 1027, August 19. This station was also the first of a section 

 of 22 stations from Cape Farewell across the opening of Davis Strait 

 to South Wolf Island, Labrador. This section is a repetition of a 

 section taken last year through the same area. On August 18, 19, 

 and 20, while in the vicinity of Cape Farewell, Greenland, the fol- 

 lowing east Greenland bergs were seen : On August 18 an isolated 

 berg in latitude 58°27' N., longitude 43°31' W,, on August 19 and 

 20 about 200 large bergs from latitude 60°00' N., longitude 43°00' W., 

 to latitude 59°09' N., longitude 45°20' W., and hundreds of bergs to 

 the northeast and northwest along the Greenland coast : on August 

 20 scattered bergs and pieces as far west as latitude 59°03' X., longi- 



