AS FAR AS HARRINGTON 



of a calm. Reefs were all about us, and over 

 these great seas were curling and breaking. 

 The captain took pencil notes of his soundings 

 from time to time, for he said, "when I put 

 them in my mind they rub out"; but of this 

 I saw no evidence, for he never referred to 

 notes or chart and seemed to know every 

 shoal. 



The breeze at last favored us, as a result 

 doubtless of the persistent whistling of the 

 crew, — an expedient faithfully resorted to 

 by them in calms, — and we reached Har- 

 rington. This is a little fishing- village of some 

 thirty families clustered on rocky islands about 

 a snug hcirbor. We at once visited Dr. Gren- 

 fell's hospital on the main island of Har- 

 rington and were disappointed to find that it 

 was empty of patients and physicians alike. 

 Dr. Hare, after nine years of hard work here, 

 had just retired to an orange farm in Flor- 

 ida, and his successor. Dr. West, who came 

 with us on the Cascapedia, was away visit- 

 ing patients. The hospital, doctor's house, 

 two churches, — Anglican and Presbyterian, — 

 and a dozen or so comfortable houses, besides 

 fish-stages, are nestled securely under the bold 

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