Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1910a
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The steamer will sail at 11 P.M. One after tenth is in the front part of the boat. July 6 - 1910 Wednesday, The steamer Bruce behaved nicely during the night and we arrived at Potomac Boquey before seven A.M. on a beautiful bright morning. The air is crisp and cool. The rocks stick out everywhere and there is not a tree in sight along the sea front. Further south, there is a low fresh and in the Codroy County some farming. Arrived at Biddle Cove, Bay of Islands at 3.30 and put off at the Tournier Street boarding house run by Jas. Parsons. We then called on Mr. Thorne, the man in charge of Ayre & Sons Store a branch of the St. John's House. A very quiet man of few words. Landed on the Vertona and met one shipper Tom Kennedy, The second man, Mr. Lynch, and Tom O'Shea the cook known as Uncle Tom. It is a boat more than four times as large as Poires' boat and will hold the fire man and all our belongings easy. Like fishermen schooner there is nothing to brag about. Our sleeping berths are mere holes with the smears of bilge.