Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1910a
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Transcription
The day is one of the first with a very light wind. We got away at nine and are slowly drifting down the Humber with the tides. As we get down several miles we get a good breeze and the Vistula moves along nicely. At Medoms Point one man goes ashore to get a barrel of gasoline in the dog. A little later the wind is nearly head on and we make many tacks to reach Brody Island. We arrive here at 3.30 P.M. and conclude to lie inside of the island for the night as the ones outside in the Bull would not be able to go out and then it would die down during the night or that one night we would lie in the trough of the sea rolling about. Tomorrow or morning we will make another start. At 3.30 P.M. we go ashore of Brody Island to see the geology of this island. Returned to the Vistula at 7 P.M.