Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1910a
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Monday July 11-1910 On the Gulf. At 4 A.M. the wind was high from the south- east calling of too small of sea to venture out so, Mr, Kennedy thought. At 7.45 the wind had almost died out and we started to sail down the Bay of Islands. For a time it was a drift with the tide. Fully ten A.M. we had a fine and gentle sea breeze. At 12.30 we are opposite Point Pirin some ten miles south of Bonvie Bay entrance. The day is casting over and it may rain before night. A little after two the wind stiffening of con- siderably and with shows of rain. The water soon gets rough and I for 'tis my hand to stay there. The night was abrad one out in the Gulf and with some fog it became necessary to take wall sail and we lay in the trough of the sea from about midnight to nearly three in the morning. These were terrible hours of torment and Torah felt was sick, yes very sick throughout the night. At about 8 A.M. of the 12th Kennedy said he was calling for Point Rich and