Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1910a
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Wednesday July 20 Anse au Loup. Another fine grand day. At seven we started in the boat [day] to cross the head of Fortune Bay and then to walk 8 to 9 miles to Anse au Loup. The flies and mosquitoes did not bother us until we got to Johnson Cove and they were plentiful on the back part of Long Bay. Just before we arrived at Point Armon Light house we passed the home of three Davis brothers. The original Davis came to this place 96 years ago and took out a squatters claim. They seem like doin' well as the house is a large one and all about it in fine order. The best farming settlement I any way have seen in Labrador. Davis evidently thinks little of Dr. Greenfield doing his work among the Labradorites during the drouth and talking about them in the winter, talking of the weather here and the hardships of the country. Evidently Davis thinks they were I Southern Labradors and that the natives can take care of themselves without the aid of the Doctor minimaris. Davis also told us that Richardson stayed with his father in '92 in the same house we were in