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rnoster Square Edinburgh: 75 Princes Street
Foreword
In a land where there was no doctor and no school, and through an evil system of barter and trade the people were practically bound to serfdom, Doctor Wilfred T. Grenfell has established hospitals and nursing stations, schools and co-operative stores, and raised the people to a degree of self dependence and a much happier condition of life. All this has been done through his personal activity, and is today being supported through his personal administration.
The author has lived among the people of Labrador and shared some of their hardships. He has witnessed with his own eyes some of the marvelous achievements of Doctor Grenfell. In the following pages he has made a poor attempt to offer his testimony. The book lays no claim to either originality or literary merit. It barely touches upon the field. The half has not been told.
He also wishes to acknowledge reference in compiling the book to old files and scrapbooks of published articles concerning Doctor Grenfell and his work, to Doctor Grenfell's book Vikings of Today, and to having verified dates and incidents through Doctor Grenfell's Autobiography, published by Houghton Mifflin & Company, of Boston.
D.W.
Beacon, N.Y.
Contents
I. THE SANDS OF DEE 11
II. THE NORTH SEA FLEETS 26
III. ON THE HIGH SEAS 31
IV. DOWN ON THE LABRADOR 39
V. THE RAGGED MAN IN THE RICKETY BOAT 52
VI. OVERBOARD! 61
VII. IN THE BREAKERS 68
VIII. AN ADVENTUROUS VOYAGE 74
IX. IN THE DEEP WILDERNESS 83
X. THE SEAL HUNTER 99
XI. UNCLE WILLY WOLFREY 109
XII. A DOZEN FOX TRAPS 116
XIII. SKIPPER TOM'S COD TRAP 126
XIV. THE SAVING OF RED BAY 135
XV. A LAD OF THE NORTH 146
XVI. MAKING A HOME FOR THE ORPHANS 158
XVII. THE DOGS OF THE ICE TRAIL 171
XVIII. FACING AN ARCTIC BLIZZARD 183
XIX. HOW AMBROSE WAS MADE TO WALK 193
XX. LOST
The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador, page 1
by Dillon Wallace