Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1910a
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of the day and from their fishing stayin we had one mile to walk to Mr. Taylors house, We are arrived over to the skin and had to change most of my clothes and two or three of the family till ours are again dry. With these people and fishing in this year a com- plete failure. They have put off some baskets but their catch is so small all in care as to be almost without anything to bank on for the coming winter. Wednesday July 27, Current Island. Another foggy day. Worked on Current Island and northward along the shore from Mat Taylors house to St. Barthe Bay! Thursday July 28. Bay St. Barthe, Our boat got to St.Barthes Bay last evening at 6 P.M. They left once an long at 9 A.M. in a fog and had all day around in it. Two of us walked to the boat after 7.45 P.M. and got back at 11 P.M. about the very last of day light. There was a white frost last night. At 8 A.M. we walk 3 miles to the boat in St. Barthe bay as the wind is rising, At 9.30 we raise the anchor and are off. One family lives at Bay St.Barthe.