Ocean Voyage. Montreal to Liverpool.
1911.
June 24
to 
July 1
(No 3)

Cape Ray to Cape Race, Newfoundland.
South Coast of Newfoundland
Ice-berg [Iceberg].

  When I came on deck the morning of the 26th we were passing
Cape Ray which showed distinctly in the brilliantly clear air & sunlight at
a distance of about ten miles. During the remainder of the day we steamed
eastward along the south coast of Newfoundland at distances from the land
varying with the sinuations of the coast line from eight or ten to twice as
many miles passing some few of the bolder promontories or outlying islands
within three miles or less. Twilight was falling when we reached Cape
Race and, changing our course to about north-east, started out into the
open ocean, heading straight for the northern end of Ireland. I had
expected to go to the north of Newfoundland through the Straits of Belle Isle
but this, we were assured, was impossible because of the fact that they
were choked from end to end with heavy fields of floe ice.
The southern part of Newfoundland, as I saw it, is a most barren
and desolate-looking country, quite treeless and rising inland in great
rounded, rocky, mass or rock around hills, bordered surround by
At 10.30 P.M. I saw a huge ice-berg about a mile away looking in the darkness
like a cumulus [?] white cloud resting on the water.
cliffs of moderate height. I saw few human habitations of any kind.
[The southern part of Newfoundland, as I saw it, is a most barren and desolate-looking country, quite treeless and rising inland in great rounded, rocky, moss or rock covered hills, bordered seaward by cliffs of moderate height. I saw few human habitations of any kind. At 10.30 P.M. I saw a huge ice-berg [iceberg] about a mile away looking in the darkness like a cumulus [?] white cloud resting on the water.