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TO
THE CREW OF THE “STRATHCONA”
| Henry Bartlett, | Skipper |
| Munden Clark, | Second Hand |
| William Percy, | First Engineer |
| John Scott, | Second Engineer |
| Archie Butler, | Hospital Hand |
| James Hiscock, | Cook |
| Alec Sims, | Ship’s Boy |
TO THE READER
This book pretends to no literary excellence; it has a far better reason for existence—a larger justification. Its purpose is to spread the knowledge of the work of Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, of the Royal National Mission to Deep-Sea Fishermen, at work on the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador; and to describe the character and condition of the folk whom he seeks to help. The man and the mission are worthy of sympathetic interest; worthy, too, of unqualified approbation, of support of every sort. Dr. Grenfell is indefatigable, devoted, heroic; he is more and even better than that—he is a sane and efficient worker. Frankly, the author believes that the reader would do a good deed by contributing to the maintenance and development of the doctor’s beneficent undertakings; and regrets that the man and his work are presented in this inadequate way and by so incapable a hand. The author is under obligation to the editors of Harper’s Magazine, of The World’s Work, and of Outing for permission to reprint the contributed papers which, in some part, go to make up the volume. He wishes also to protest that Dr. Grenfell is not the hero of a certain work of fiction dealing with life on the Labrador coast. Some unhappy misunderstanding has arisen on this point. The author wishes to make it plain that “Doctor Luke” was not drawn from Dr. Grenfell.
N. D.
College Campus,
Washington, Pennsylvania, January 25, 1905.
CONTENTS
| [I.] | The Doctor |
| [II.] | A Round of Bleak Coasts |
| [III.] | Ships in Peril |
| [IV.] | Desperate Need |
| [V.] | A Helping Hand |
| [VI.] | Faith and Duty |
| [VII.] | The Liveyere |
| [VIII.] | With the Fleet |
| [IX.] | On the French Shore |
| [X.] | Some Outport Folk |
| [XI.] | Winter Practice |
| [XII.] | The Champion |
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