Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1910a
Page 47
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Transcription
"At about noon we got within 5 miles of Flower Cove and the Grand Gome. During the next three hours we lose ground going northeast with the tide. At about three the wind again rises but dead against us for Flower Cove. The men therefore conclude to return to Cape Ann Reef. At 5 P.M., we are back again to the place we left in the morning. Our days work and sea sickness is nothing. At 5 P.M., we go ashore for the night taking board and lodging at Mrs Barney's (the old lady Barney). The house is full of mosquitoes and there are some black flies about the windows. As usual the rooms are small and quarters are congested. During the evening we hear a great deal about dwelling conditions here. Mr. Barney caught last year 95 hake's of cod fish and got $4 in each hake. In other words his entire earnings for the year was $380. Besides this they raise some vegetables initially about all they can unless it be the potatoes and ood can be had in the labor. Everyone owns his own house. On these conditions six people are taken care of, the parents and grand mother and three boys. The oldest boy is nearly ten and fishes with