E-text prepared by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Jeannie Howse,
and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
(https://www.pgdp.net/)
Transcriber's Note: Much of the dialogue is dialect. The few spelling mistakes have been kept, including St. Johns for St. John's (Newfoundland).
Three of the men hauled, the other with a pole, kept it clear of the rocks ([See page 45])