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Friday July 15-1910. Forteau Bay.
We left Blanc Sablon to walk to Forteau
Bay along the telegraph path. Leaving the
former place we took the more direct route
over the northeastern hill to L'Anse St.Clair
Bay, three miles distant. On the west side
of the bay there are probably 20 to 25 houses
while on the east side there are probably less
than 5. Many of the fish can't where are
in jars and they had quite a lot of
cod salted down.
We were attracted by many cases of cod
livers sitting down to Cod-oil. It is a miserable
mess full of flies. Eventually the oil is drawn
off. It seems that it is not this oil that is
used to make the cod liver oil for great
people but is used for some other and probably
commercial purpose.
The medicinal cod liver oil is made from
fresh and marked livers that are placed in
teamers holding probably two baskets of livers.
These galvanic steamers are double walled
between which there is hot water to a depth
of about 1/2 inches. I do not know how long
the livers are steamed but eventually the oil