CHAPTER VI 



AS FAR AS DR. GRENFELL's HOSPITAL AT 

 HARRINGTON 



AFTER ten hours' sleep in clear, cool air on 

 balsam boughs spread on deck, and after 

 the dash of the eye-opening bucket of sea- 

 water, we were fit for whatever the day should 

 bring forth. Our first objective point, while 

 the morning breeze was gathering strength, 

 was the protecting harbor island of Matchia- 

 tik.^ Here, so the captain told us, Jean-Bap- 

 tiste Galibois narrowly escaped disaster forty 

 years ago in attempting to make our harbor 

 in a storm, a storm that sank six schooners 

 and drowned many brave men. Jean-Baptiste's 

 vessel miraculously escaped the rocks, passed 

 through the narrow and turbulent passage, 

 and rode in safety in the quiet anchorage of 

 the little harbor. Out of gratitude for his de- 

 liverance he erected on Matchiatik Island a 

 large wooden cross, which has served all these 



' This name is wrongly given on the charts to an island 

 several miles to the northeast. 



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