BLANC SABLON 



fish they catch, but sell them to the company, 

 and the "servants" who work for wages. The 

 company has also a branch, or "room" as it is 

 called, at lie au Bois, another at Greenly Is- 

 land, both near at hand, and still another at 

 Forteau, some twelve miles down the coast. 

 This "room" at Blanc Sablon was founded one 

 hundred and fifty years ago by a firm from the 

 Island of Jersey, and the main building, altered 

 and rebuilt, still stands. With many of the 

 terms used I was familiar from my acquaint- 

 ance with Cartwright's Journals. A season's 

 work, for example, is called a "voyage," and 

 the term "cook-room" does not mean merely a 

 kitchen, but refers to the whole building where 

 the men eat and sleep. 



Another word frequently used by Cartwright 

 I found to be common here, and that is "alex- 

 ander" applied to a plant used as a pot-herb. 

 Mrs. Grant at once pointed it out to me, and 

 said that she always gathered it when it was 

 young and tender and cooked it as greens. I 

 was somewhat chagrined to find that the iden- 

 tification I had made of "alexander" in editing 

 Cartwright's Journals was an erroneous one, 

 but I am glad to have this opportunity to 



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