CHAPTER XII 



BLANC SABLON 



WE pushed on in the fog, passed Long 

 Point, the western entrance of the 

 Straits of Belle Isle, and landed at Blanc Sa- 

 blon. This was on Wednesday, July 28; the 

 steamer was due on Friday, but fog delayed her 

 until the afternoon of Monday, August 2. Dur- 

 ing the interval I was the guest of Mr. Edwin 

 G. Grant, the agent of the great fishing-es- 

 tablishment of Job Brothers and Company, 

 Limited, at Blanc Sablon. The most distinc- 

 tive quality of the Labradorians, says the 

 Abb6 Huard, is their hospitality, and with this 

 I can entirely agree. I began this expedition by 

 a delightful experience of hospitality at Piashte 

 Bay and I ended it equally pleasantly at Blanc 

 Sablon. Mr. Grant and his charming family 

 made my stay one always to be remembered. 

 He has had charge here for Job Brothers and 

 Company, a Newfoundland firm, for thirty-one 

 years. There are seventy men under him : those 

 who are nominally independent and own the 



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