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diff --git a/19301.txt b/19301.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7f31bfc --- /dev/null +++ b/19301.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1704 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, Extracts from a Journal of a Voyage of +Visitation in the "Hawk," 1859, by Edward Feild + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: Extracts from a Journal of a Voyage of Visitation in the "Hawk," 1859 + + +Author: Edward Feild + + + +Release Date: September 16, 2006 [eBook #19301] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EXTRACTS FROM A JOURNAL OF A +VOYAGE OF VISITATION IN THE "HAWK," 1859*** + + +E-text prepared by a www.PGDP.net Volunteer, Jeannie Howse, Dave Morgan, +and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team +(http://www.pgdp.net) + + + + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + | Transcriber's Note: | + | | + | Inconsistent hyphenation and unusual spelling in the | + | original document have been preserved. | + | | + | Typographical errors have been corrected in this text. | + | For a complete list, please see the end of this document. | + | | + | A wide multi-paged table at the end of this document has | + | been split, at the end of each page, into two easy-to- | + | rejoin parts. | + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + + + + + +Church in the Colonies. +No. XXXVII. + +EXTRACTS FROM A JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE OF VISITATION, IN THE "HAWK," 1859, + +by + +THE BISHOP OF NEWFOUNDLAND. + + + + + + + + [Greek: "Ou toi aneu Theou eptato dexios ornis, + Kirkos"]--HOM. _Odys._ + + + +London: +Printed for +the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel; +and Sold by the +Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, +Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields; +4, Royal Exchange; 16, Hanover Street, Hanover Square; +Rivingtons, Bell and Daldy, Hatchards, +and All Booksellers. + +1860. +June. + +London: +R. Clay, Printer, Bread Street Hill. + + + + +EXTRACTS FROM A JOURNAL, + +_&c. &c._ + + + + +PREFATORY LETTER + + +BERMUDA, + +_March 15, 1860._ + +"MY DEAR HAWKINS, + +"You are aware that I have ceased for some years to forward to the +Society the Journals of my Voyages of Visitation.[1] It did not appear +to me that the cause of the Society, or of my diocese, would be much +advanced, or individuals much interested or edified by detailed +reports of visits and services with which those who had read the +former Journals would be familiar. + +"The sad state of religious destitution in many settlements in +Newfoundland and Labrador had been, I thought, sufficiently shown; and +the benefits and blessing conferred, and to be conferred, by the +Society, thankfully stated and fully demonstrated. I have, therefore, +considered it better and more becoming to confine myself to a bare and +brief newspaper statement of the places visited, and the services +performed, without any particular mention of the condition of the +inhabitants, and other incidents of the voyage. + +"In my late visitation, however, I have been enabled to reach a +portion of the island, in which, though several hundred members of our +Church have long resided, no clergyman had ever before been seen. I +refer to White Bay, a remote district on the so-called French Shore of +Newfoundland. A large portion, nearly one-half of the coast of +Newfoundland (from Cape St. John on the N.E. to Cape Ray on the S.W.), +is called and known in the island by that name (the French Shore); in +consequence of the permission, granted by treaty, to the French to +fish for cod on, or round that portion. The natives and inhabitants of +Newfoundland, and the British generally, have not considered it worth +their while to prosecute the fishery to any extent in these parts, or +to settle in them; the operations of the French fishermen, being +assisted and systematized by their Government, are on such an +extensive scale as to exclude competition, and to render their +privilege practically an exclusive one. Nevertheless, as the parts of +the island so assigned, or given up, are among the most productive, +not only in fish, but in game, and occasionally in seals (which are +there taken in nets with comparatively little trouble or expense), +families have from time to time migrated to and settled in these +remote districts, scattering themselves widely, with the view of +obtaining the means of subsistence in larger abundance and with +greater ease. Now, as there are no roads to, or on, this shore, and +each settlement therefore can only be approached by sea, and by sea +only for four or five months in the year, in any vessel larger than a +boat, it is exceedingly difficult to minister to, or visit the +inhabitants. Nevertheless, I have been enabled, by the aid of my +Church-ship, to visit, _at intervals of four years_, since 1848, most +of the settlements on this shore. In St. George's Bay, indeed, the +most thickly or largely inhabited part, a Church has been built, and +one of our Society's missionaries stationed for several years; and +great, in consequence, is the change, great the improvement in the +residents. Here, I have been enabled, as in other parts of the island, +to celebrate the services of consecration and confirmation, and to +provide for the administration of the Holy Communion. But until the +census of 1857, I was not aware of the large number of our people in +White Bay and the neighbourhood, or of the large proportion they bear +to the whole population. When, at the close of that year, I discovered +that more than three-fourths registered themselves members of the +Church of England, I resolved, should it please God to permit me, to +make another voyage in my Church-ship, that I would myself visit, and +minister to, as I might be able, these scattered sheep of my flock. A +statement of their condition, and of my services, assisted by the +clergy who accompanied me, cannot fail, I think, to interest and +affect all those who can feel for the sheep or the shepherd. It is +with a view of awakening this Christian sympathy in behalf of my poor +diocese, and generally in the cause and fork of your Society (by or +through which both sheep and shepherd have been so largely befriended +and assisted) that I am desirous of publishing those parts of the +journal of my last voyage that relate to White Bay. + +"I have added the account of two days in the Bay of Islands, a +locality only so far more happily circumstanced than, or I should +rather say not so unhappily circumstanced as, White Bay, inasmuch as +the inhabitants have been twice before visited by myself in the +Church-ship, and once by the Missionary of the Belle-Isle Straits. The +circumstances of both, or of either, will, I think, justify the +application of an apostle's question to him--to any one--who, having +an abundance of spiritual goods, can see the need of these his +brethren, and shut up his compassion from them;--'How dwelleth the +love of Christ in him?' + + "I am, + Yours faithfully, + E. NEWFOUNDLAND." + +THE REV. ERNEST HAWKINS. + + +FOOTNOTES: + +[1] The last published was that of 1853. + + + + +EXTRACTS FROM A JOURNAL. + +PART I.--WHITE BAY. + + +_Thursday, July 7th. At sea, and Little Harbour Deep._--Passed Cape +St. John, at eight o'clock; several French vessels in the harbour: +passed Partridge Point soon after twelve o'clock, and entered White +Bay. I had intended to visit, in the first place, the settlements on +the south side of the bay, but the wind being adverse, we stood across +to Little Harbour Deep, not knowing that we should find any "livers" +there; but hoping to be able from thence to visit, or there to be +visited by, the families dwelling in Grande-Vache, or Grandfather's +Cove, said to be only one mile distant. On nearing the harbour, we saw +and hailed a boat, which proved to belong to the place, and in which +were a man and his wife returning from their salmon nets, which they +overhaul twice a day. We took them on board, and having no pilot, were +glad to avail ourselves of the man's knowledge of the place in beating +in, which occupied two hours, as the wind was blowing strongly and +directly out. Theirs was the only family living in the harbour. We +informed them of the object of our visit, which appeared to please +them greatly, and they promised to send to their neighbours in +Grandfather's Cove (which proves, however, to be nearly three miles +distant) very early to-morrow morning, and acquaint them with our +presence, and our intention to have services on board the Church-ship. + +The appearance of these people was not so wild as might be expected +from their wild and lonely life. In the summer they occupy, by +themselves, this large harbour, shut in by immense cliffs, which no +person ever ascends or descends. In the winter they occupy and possess +the Horse-Islands, lying several miles from the shore, surrounded for +months by ice. + +Seldom in either place do they see any human being, except the members +of their own family, and not one of the family can read. In summer +they catch salmon and codfish; and in the winter kill seals. And yet +they are not heathens or savages. The woman, though rowing, was very +neatly dressed, with a necklace, but no other superfluous finery; the +man was tidy; both were civil. They presented us with two salmon, all +they had in their boat, and promised us finer ones to-morrow. They +expressed much pleasure at the prospect of attending the services, and +of having their youngest child christened or admitted into the Church. +All had been baptized; some at Twillingate, some at Herring Neck, in +each case by a clergyman, one by a Methodist preacher, one by a +fisherman; but all had been admitted into the Church (at Twillingate, +or Herring Neck) except this youngest. They left us about 10.30 P.M., +after attending our family prayers in the cabin. + +_Friday, July 8th. Little Harbour Deep._--Before four o'clock, two of +my men, with a boy from shore, went to Grandfather's Cove +(Grande-Vache) to invite the families (Randalls) living there to our +services. Though so early, one of the families had gone to their +fishing ground before our men arrived. The others gladly accepted the +invitation. This being the first day of missionary work, or services, +on board the Church-ship, I had to instruct my friends, Mr. Johnson +and Mr. Tucker, how to arrange and deck the large cabin for the +congregation. The day, happily, was very fine, so that we were able to +put several of the many packages and boxes on deck. + +The congregation, in the morning, consisted of only the two families +(Wiseman and Randall) and our captain. In the afternoon (4.30 P.M.), +our crew also attended. One girl was hypothetically baptised, and four +children received. The elder Johnson said the prayers and baptized; +the younger read the lessons. I addressed the little congregation both +morning and evening. There is something of both pleasure and pain in +these quiet services; pleasure, in hoping that God, in his mercy, may +bless some word of exhortation, or some prayer, to the edification of +these forsaken ones; pain, in observing how by the people themselves +the prayers and lessons seem to be wholly not appreciated, or not +understood. Not one could read, several of them had never heard the +service before, so they rose up and knelt down as automatons; and +would, I doubt not, have been just as ready to kneel at the Psalms as +at the Confession, and to sit at either, or both, as when hearing the +lessons or sermon. After the service, one man bought a Prayer-book for +his daughter, and we gave them several children's books and tracts. I +examined the bigger children after the service; one girl, probably ten +or twelve years of age, could not repeat the Lord's Prayer or the +Creed; a second imperfectly; a third tolerably well. It was, indeed, +pitiful; and enough to fill the heart of any pastor, and specially +their chief pastor, with sorrow and shame. + +After the second service, I accompanied my friends in a boat to the +head of the harbour, where it receives a small stream (the drain of +some lake, or of the bogs and mosses in the neighbourhood), which +winds and creeps between some magnificent mountains. While they were +fishing I wandered, climbing over the boulders, along the borders of +the stream, to enjoy the solitude and deep silence of the winding +valley. The absence of all living creatures, except mosquitoes and +dragon-flies, is a striking feature; and the occasional whistle or +scream of some sea-bird only renders the prevailing stillness more +strange; grateful or painful, according to the disposition and state +of mind. + +We returned to the ship soon after sunset, frightfully eaten by +mosquitoes. The fishers had all had plenty of bites, and realized a +new phase of "fly-fishing," but carried home among them one trout +only. The mosquitoes had got possession of the Church-ship, and paid +us off for invading their solitudes. + +_Saturday, July 9th. At sea._--We left Little Harbour Deep soon after +three o'clock A.M., with a fair wind, which died away outside, and we +did not reach our next place of call (Little Coney Arm) till five +o'clock P.M. There new delay and difficulty awaited us. We fired two +guns, but no person came off, and not a single boat could anywhere be +seen. The whole shore seemed deserted. Nevertheless, we discerned +houses in the harbour, and stood towards the entrance; but finding the +water shoal suddenly, the captain let go the anchor, and sent a boat +in, with the mate and three of my companions. They brought word, to my +great mortification, that nearly all the inhabitants had gone to fish +in other parts of the bay, and that but one old man, with the females +and children of three families, remained. Him they brought off to be +our pilot. Unfortunately, in getting again under way, we went to +leeward of the entrance, and immediately after the wind dropped +altogether. The tide then drifted us into Great Coney Arm, and every +tack took us farther to leeward. It seemed almost certain we should be +carried to the head of the Bight, to spend the Sunday in a solitary +place; but by keeping a boat ahead, with four hands, sometimes of the +crew, sometimes of the clergy, we maintained our ground until, about +eleven o'clock, a breeze sprang up in our favour, and we regained the +entrance of the Little Arm, and came to anchor just at midnight, +whereby I learnt a lesson of patience and perseverance. + +_Third Sunday after Trinity, July 10th. Little Coney Arm._--Four +families reside in this harbour, two of which are returned in the +census as Methodists, the other two Church of England. All the men, +however, were absent, except the old man who was brought off to us the +previous night; besides him were four women, and some seven or eight +children, and a sick man (a Roman Catholic), who had been left by a +trader. All, however, in the harbour (except the sick Roman) came on +board to both our services, and the women (all) expressed a great +desire to have their children admitted into the Church. The Gospel for +the Sunday gave me occasion to preach to them and myself on the +"Parable of the Lost Sheep;" to myself, to make me ashamed of thinking +much of serving or ministering to these two or three in the +wilderness; and to them, to make them, and each of them, I trust, more +grateful to the good Shepherd who came himself on the same errand on +which He sends his ministers to seek for every one that is lost and +gone astray, and who assures us there is joy in heaven over one sinner +that repenteth. The day was as bright and the scene as lovely as could +be desired for any Sabbath on earth, and I greatly enjoyed the rest +and peace. After tea, we went on shore and visited all the families, +and gave medicine to the poor Irishman, and books to the children. I +examined the children in the Lord's Prayer and Creed, and found that +the child of the Church of England parents (neither of whom could +read) was much more perfect than the children of the others, who +boasted of their learning and reading; some (ten or twelve years of +age) could not say the Lord's prayer. At family prayer, in the +evening, I addressed my crew, and explained to them the object of my +voyage, and entreated them to co-operate by their example in every +place, and warned them against the faults to which I knew them most +liable. + +_Monday, July 11th. Little Coney Arm, at sea, and Bear Cove._--Sailed +from Little Coney Arm at four o'clock A.M., wind light, but fair for +crossing the bay, and we accordingly passed over to Bear Cove. We +found that all the inhabitants (four families) were at home, or on +their fishing-grounds, and all professed members of the Church of +England, and greatly desirous to be admitted, by baptism or reception +as the case might require; and two couples, who had been united by a +fisherman, expressed a wish to be duly married. One couple made some +difficulty about the fee (having no money), but promised to send the +amount (20s.) in money, or fish, to the nearest clergyman, in the +fall. The service was to have commenced at five o'clock, but it was +with difficulty all were got together and duly arranged at 6.15. We +said the Evening Prayers, which I fear must have been parables to +these poor people, several of whom had lived here and in the +neighbouring coves all their life, and had never before seen a +clergyman, or heard the service. After the second lesson, the baptisms +had to be performed, and sad and strange were the discoveries made by +the question, whether the child or person (for some were fifteen, +sixteen, and eighteen years of age) had been baptized or no? Of all it +was answered they had been baptized; but some, it appeared, could not +tell by whom, some by fishermen, several by a woman,--the only person +in the settlement (and she a native) who could read correctly. One +woman (married) was baptized, hypothetically, with her infant. +Twenty-one in all were admitted, the majority with hypothetical +baptism. Both of the women who came to be married had infants in their +arms; one of them had three children. Not one person in the whole +settlement could read correctly, except the woman before mentioned; +her husband (a native of Bay of Islands), a little. He had, however, +been employed to marry one of our present couples, which he confessed +to me with some shame and confusion of face, saying, "he had picked +the words out of the book as well as he could make them out," but he +did not baptise, because "that reading was too hard;" in fact, he +could scarcely read at all, he left the baptisms therefore to his +wife. I addressed the people after the baptisms, trying to make them +understand the meaning and purpose of that Sacrament, and again after +the prayers, in their obligations as baptized. After this service, Mr. +Johnson married the two couples, and I examined the children in their +prayers and belief, which I found most of them could repeat more or +less correctly, but not one knew a letter of the alphabet. It was +considerably after nine o'clock before we could dismiss our visitors, +and sorry they seemed to be dismissed as I was to dismiss them. Poor +people! the fair faces of the children would have moved the admiration +of a Gregory; and the destitute, forsaken condition of all would move +the compassion of any one who believed they have souls to be saved; +how much more if those souls in any sense were committed to his +charge. But what can I do more for them, and, alas! for many others +almost equally destitute and forsaken. It is but too probable that +never again, either myself, or by others, shall I be able to minister +to their wants. To-morrow with the first dawn, the men and boys will +be all out on their fishing-grounds, the women busy in their houses, +the elder girls nursing the younger children; and I must be on the +move to perform a like perfunctory service to others in the same state +of ignorance, of whom I believe there are more than two hundred in +this bay. + +_Tuesday, July 12th. At Bear Cove, at sea, at Jackson's Arm, and at +Sop's Island._--We warped out of Bear Cove, there being then no wind, +at five o'clock A.M., and stood over to Jackson's Cove, on the +opposite side of the bay (about nine miles), which we reached by 8.30. +It is a capacious and beautiful harbour, easy of approach and +entrance. On coming to anchor, I sent on shore immediately, and found +that all the men were gone to Sop's Island (about five miles off), +except one poor fellow with a diseased hip, to whom I sent some wine +and medicine. I proposed to take the only woman left behind, with her +children, on board the Church-ship, to join her friends and relations +at Sop's Island, to which she gladly assented, and they came on board +accordingly. We then weighed anchor again at 12.30, to beat to Sop's +Island, which we reached between three and four o'clock. We landed +immediately with our poor fisherman's wife, who appeared an +intelligent, seriously-disposed person, and she could read. Her +children were very wild, hair uncut and uncombed, without shoes and +stockings. She had come from the Barred Islands (in the Fogo Mission), +and lamented the separation from her Church and clergy. She guided us +to the residences and fishing rooms of the different residents and +others in Sop's Island, and we appointed a service for them at five +o'clock, not, however, expecting to get them together before six +o'clock. We commenced at 6.15; seventeen children were received into +the Church, and two couples married. We found that the parties whom we +had missed at Coney's Arm (as well as those from Jackson's Arm) were +in this island, and we sent word to them of our intention to hold +service again to-morrow. Here was a repetition of the same melancholy +anomalies and irregularities as those of yesterday, except that two or +three of the women could read; and a Mr. M----, from St. John's, a +small dealer or merchant, who has resided here for several years, has +kept up some remembrance of God and his service by reading the Church +prayers at a funeral. He resides, however, in the house of a planter, +who has brought and lives with a woman from England, in the very +neighbourhood of his wife, whom he deserted after she had borne him +three children. She (his wife) is still living at Twillingate, and +supports herself as a nurse and servant. By the woman he now lives +with he has had seven children, most of whom are grown up, and +several married. When he saw my vessel with a female on board, he +thought his wife was come from Twillingate, and went and hid himself +in the woods. Some of his children and grandchildren were among those +admitted this day into the Church. After the prayers and two addresses +from myself, one in connexion with the baptismal service, and one in +place of a sermon, two couples were married. These services were not +finished till nearly nine o'clock. + +_Wednesday, July 13th. Sop's Island, at sea, and at Gold Cove._--I had +appointed the service at nine o'clock, being anxious to get forward, +if possible, in the afternoon; but it was not till after twelve +o'clock that the poor people could arrange their little (to them +great) matters, and come with their children properly attired. Some +had to go on board a trader lying in the harbour to purchase clothes; +several came from a distance against a head wind. Two couples were +married before, and two after, the prayers; six children of one of the +pairs were admitted into the Church: all had been baptized by lay +hands. Two women, neighbours, had each baptized the other's children. +After the services, I gave away a number of elementary books for +children; three or four Prayer-books, and one Bible were purchased. At +two o'clock they all took their departure, with many expressions of +pleasure and gratitude. We got away just before a violent north-easter +(a wind which always comes, as they say, with the butt end first), +which carried us rapidly to Gold Cove, at the head of the bay. It is a +snug, well-sheltered place, but the water is deep almost up to the +shore; and we moored, for the first time in my experience, to a tree. +However, we found bottom at about sixteen fathoms, and plenty of fish +upon it. One of my companions jigged nine fine fish in an hour. The +others went off to visit the people, who were at some distance, and +apprize them, as usual, of our presence and purpose. A more secluded, +retired spot could hardly, I think, be found, or more picturesque +withal. Wild gooseberries grow on the shore in abundance, and, of +course, other fruits, which no hand gathers and no eye sees. Here the +people report themselves to have been very successful in their fishery +this year. It is the first place where we have heard of success. + +_Thursday, July 14th. At Gold Cove._--Some of our congregation came on +board before nine o'clock, but others, having to contend with a head +wind, did not arrive till 10.30. Ten o'clock was the hour named for +service; and after all were assembled on deck, it took some +considerable time to arrange and prepare the sponsors, &c., and +instruct them in the answers they would be required to make. On this +occasion, a father of eleven children desired to be baptized, and was +baptized conditionally with six of his children. He had never been +able to learn that he had received baptism even by lay hands. +Nevertheless, he bore the two honoured names of Basil and Osmond, and +by that of Basil he was now baptized and received into the Church. +Sixteen persons were received; the oldest sixty-five years of age, the +youngest four months. One couple was married, and one woman received +the Holy Communion. Most of the grown-up persons, all, I believe, +except some invalids, came to our second service in the evening. +Between the services we sailed in our boat to the head of this bay, +where we found three small rivers or brooks meeting and running by one +mouth into the sea. The water was very clear and sweet; and nothing of +the kind could exceed the picturesque beauty of the lofty and +precipitous hills, clothed and covered with trees from the base to the +summit. I can hardly fancy a greater treat than to sail for three or +four weeks through the reaches and tickles of this bay, which has the +singular advantage of being free from rocks and shoals, with abundance +of good and safe harbours, almost all surrounded by hills and +headlands of picturesque outline, covered with trees, against which no +feller has raised his axe. Our harbour this evening appeared alive +with fish. + +_Friday, July 15th. Gold Cove, at sea, Purbeck Cove._--Went on deck at +4.35, and found a fine morning and fair wind, but no captain or crew: +the mate in the boat fishing. Called the captain, and recalled the +mate, not without some displeasure at both for neglecting to get under +way. We got away at 5.30, and had a very pleasant sail to Purbeck +Cove, which we reached at nine o'clock. It is a fine harbour, but like +most in this bay with very deep water. We found here a Mr. C----, with +a vessel and crew from Greenspond for the summer fishery. He reported +favourably of his catch, and speaks of the bay as generally very +prolific. Besides cod-fish, salmon, and trout in abundance, later in +the fall he expects to catch mackerel; and this is the only bay in +which, at present, they are found in Newfoundland. Deer also abound in +the neighbourhood; some have been killed lately, and more might be +found if the people cared to look after them; but they are not yet in +season, and the fishing is not neglected for any thing or all things. +This is the great harvest; the seals are the first, but more uncertain +and less lucrative; late in the fall the deer are slaughtered; and in +the winter other game, with foxes, martens, &c., afford sport and +means of subsistence. Seeing several boats fishing outside, I +despatched my friends to inform the men who and what we were, and to +request them, if possible, to bring their families on board in the +afternoon. Fortunately they were able to communicate with parties +living above and below. All, though the fishery was at its height, +accepted the invitation, and Mr. C---- came also with his crew, so +that the cabin could not contain them, and several of the men stood +round the skylight on the deck, from which they looked down upon us as +from a gallery. The day was very fine and warm, and I suffered no +inconvenience from open skylight or sky, except when a piece of +tobacco descended on my head. Twenty-one children were received into +the Church, and one couple married. Very few, if any, except some men +of Mr. C----'s crew (who, thanks to their good pastor at Greenspond, +had their Prayer-books, and were attentive and well behaved) could +read, but most of the children could say the Lord's Prayer and Creed. +One woman brought forward her daughter as "a terrible girl" to, say +her Creed and Lord's Prayer, and some of the Commandments; and "that +hymn you sung below (Evening Hymn), she knows _he_, but she _lips_ +(lisps), so she's ashamed before strangers." Another woman, after +surveying with, much admiration a large alphabet-sheet (as I should +Egyptian hieroglyphics), said, "I suppose, sir, that's the A B C." I +gave little books to all who desired them. Though most of them had a +considerable distance to return, they seemed unwilling to leave me and +the vessel, and I was in no hurry to dismiss them. It was very sad +indeed to think that the meeting and intercourse, after so long delay, +and with so little prospect of being renewed, should be so short, when +so many important things had to be done, and alas! so many left +undone! + +_Saturday, July 16th. Purbeck Cove, at sea, and Seal Cove._--At five +o'clock sent letters on board Mr. C----'s vessel, to be forwarded +_via_ Greenspond to St. John's. Sailed for Seal Cove (fourteen or +fifteen miles); for three hours no wind, and then wind ahead, so that +we did not reach our harbour till eight o'clock P.M., happy and +thankful to reach it then, having in remembrance the difficulties and +anxieties of last Saturday night. In this Cove, which, at this season, +and all seasons when the wind is not strong from N.W., is a splendid +harbour, are only two families; but one boat's load had preceded us +from Purbeck Cove to profit by the Sunday services. We found the +people on shore (a family of Osmonds), very thankful for our coming, +though a Roman Catholic family had just arrived to spend the Sunday +with them. How so many people are lodged and accommodated (there must +be twenty-five now here) in one small hut is difficult to understand. +I know not how to be thankful enough for the mercies and comforts of +the past week. This is the eighth harbour I have been anchored in, +this week, and in six I have held services; and except in entering +Little Coney Arm, have encountered neither difficulty nor delay. The +winds have been generally fair, the weather always fine; the people, +without exception, grateful for our visits and services. Ninety-two +persons of various ages have been formally received into the Church; +eight couples married; one person admitted to the Lord's Supper; +nearly one hundred and eighty of all ages have been present at the +services. The bread has been cast upon the waters, may it be found. + +_Fourth Sunday after Trinity, July 17th. Seal Cove._--I was pleased to +find that two families had followed in their boats, from a harbour we +have already visited, to attend the services on board. The head of the +family resident here (in Seal Cove) is Joseph Osmond, a younger +brother of Basil; he had lost his wife last fall in giving birth to +her twelfth child, and he could not speak of her without tears. He +pointed out to me the spot, where he had himself committed her body to +the ground (the first and only one buried in the place), which he had +carefully fenced, and was anxious to have consecrated. The babe had +been nursed and kept alive by her sisters, but appeared very sickly +and not likely to continue. Nine of his twelve children he had carried +to Twillingate to be christened (_i.e._ received into the church after +private baptism), but three remained whom he desired now to be +received. All of these had been baptized by lay hands; two of them, he +said, "_had been very well baptized_," _i.e._ by a man who could read +well, the third case did not satisfy him. This was told us before the +service, and when, in the service, he was asked, as the Prayer-book +directs, "By whom was this child baptized?" he answered, "By one +Joseph Bird, and a fine reader he was." This Bird, who on account of +his fine readings, had been employed to baptise many children in the +bay, was a servant in a fisherman's family. + +We had two services, as usual, on board; four children were received +into the Church, and one couple married. This couple had followed us +from Bear Cove; they had before been united by a fisherman, had six +children, and were expecting shortly a seventh. The man was he who, at +Bear Cove, as before mentioned, had himself married a couple; and his +wife was the person who had baptized the children. Whether the couple +for whom he had officiated were "very well married," as to the +service, must be "very doubtful." Either he wished to be more perfect, +or he was doubtful about his own case; whatever was his reason, he +very cheerfully paid the fee, twenty shillings. He inquired also +whether he ought to be christened, having been baptized only by a +fisherman, though, as he said, with godfathers and a godmother. Here +was confusion worse confounded; and shame covered my face, while I +endeavoured to satisfy him and myself on these complicated points. The +poor man was evidently in earnest, and I gladly did all in my power to +relieve his mind, and place him and his in a more satisfactory state. +But how sad that one who had baptized and married others, should +himself apply to be baptized and married, being now the father of six +children! The wife appeared to be the general chronicler of all events +in the neighbourhood, and was looked up to as a kind of prophetess. +After the Evening Service, I went on shore to visit the house which +the man Osmond had built himself, and made comfortable for summer and +winter: there being abundance of wood for ceiling, &c., and birch-rind +to cover the seams. He showed his gardens, full of flourishing +potatoes, where the disease had never yet reached. The vegetation is +very luxuriant, and there is plenty of pasture for cows. He could at +any time, he said, kill a deer, and had killed upwards of two hundred! +and as his neighbours in the bay all supply themselves with the same +food, the park must be supposed to be pretty large, and well stocked. +In the winter he kills foxes and martens for their skins, wild fowls +of various sorts for food. Fuel is superabundant. The water produces +fish,--salmon, herring, and mackerel; the ice brings the seals. Osmond +acknowledges that it was "very easy to get a living," and wanted only +the minister to be more than contented. His nearest neighbours (at +Lobster Harbour) are Roman Catholics, and with these he lives on very +good terms. "There was never a thee, or a thou, passed between them." +Such is Joseph Osmond, sole occupier of Seal Cove, in White Bay, and +such his condition, physical, social, and religious. It should be +added that not one person in the settlement can read. He complains +much of the French cutting spars and other sticks, besides what they +require for their use on shore; and yet more, of their leaving many +fires in the woods, by which the whole neighbourhood is endangered. He +has often gone to put out the fires thus carelessly left, by which +thousands of acres of wood might be destroyed, and the inhabitants +driven from their homes. + +_Monday, July 18th. At Seal Cove._--This was our first day of delay +since coming into the Bay. A strong north-east wind with a heavy lop, +made it useless to attempt to proceed. In the afternoon all the people +on shore came to our service, and I explained "the articles of our +Belief, the Ten Commandments, and the Lord's Prayer." In the evening, +Mr. Tucker went on shore to teach the younger ones to repeat the +Lord's Prayer and the creed, more perfectly; and I, with the rest of +my party, rowed up "the Southern Arm," an indraft of about three +miles, winding among the most picturesque mountains I ever saw. They +rise almost perpendicularly from the water, are clothed with wood from +the base to the summit, and are of most varied shape and outline. They +surpass in grandeur the banks of the Wye, and are more thickly clothed +with wood, in which, the beech, and birch, and maple, have almost +displaced the spruce, and no green could be more fresh and delicate. +These mountains are on each side of the Arm, to its extremity, which +is nearly closed by a round, or conical hill, similarly covered with +trees; on either side of which you may enter into a valley, between +lofty rocks, and through which probably a small river or brook conveys +the surplus water of some lake or lakes lying farther up the country. +The solemn effect of the scenery was heightened by the absence of all +traces and signs of men or other animals; and the occasional scream of +a gull looking down upon us, made the general silence and solitude +more impressive. How prodigal is nature of her beauties and glories, +thus repeated and renewed in places where there is no one to admire, +and very few to see them! + +_Tuesday, July 19th. Seal Cove, and at sea._--The wind was not more +favourable to day than yesterday, except that it was not so strong; +but we thought it better to go out in the hope of some change, in the +mean time beating to windward. After standing across the bay and back, +a distance of nearly thirty miles (fourteen or fifteen each way), we +found we had only gained a mile and a half, and the next tack only +advanced us about as much more. The next time we stood across, the +wind tailed us altogether. This was trying work, especially to my +companions, who all felt the direful effect of the beating, and were +recumbent nearly the whole day, and sometimes worse; I, happily, was +able to read and write, and only grieved by the sad delay. + +_Wednesday, July 20th. At sea._--Dead calm nearly the whole day, with +occasional interludes of head-wind, which enabled us to run across the +bay, and make the unpleasant discovery that we had advanced, or +gained, only about five miles since we left our anchorage yesterday! +During the greater part of the day we were lying almost motionless. +Eight o'clock P.M. found us just where eight o'clock A.M. had left us. +A lesson in patience. + +_Thursday, July 21st. At sea, and Hooping Harbour._--After being +becalmed all night, a light breeze sprung up in our favour at four +o'clock A.M. (being then just off Little Cat Arm), which sufficed to +carry us into Hooping Harbour (about thirty-five miles) by three +o'clock P.M. Here are two families only, all the members of which, +four in one, and eight in the other, were fortunately at home. One of +the mothers is a Wesleyan, with all the scruples of her denomination. +She had taught her children the Lord's Prayer, but could not teach +them the Creed, because "it would be wrong for them to say, 'I believe +in God,' when they did not believe in Him, which she perceived they +did not." The truth, I imagine, was, she could not say it herself. She +did not like to be godmother to her neighbour's children, because "she +had sins enough of her own to answer for; and she could not make a +promise she knew she should not perform." As she was the only grown-up +woman in the place, except the one whose children, with her own, were +to be baptized, it was necessary to overcome, if possible, these +scruples, which was no easy matter. And here were fresh +complications. Some of the children of both families had been baptized +by a French priest, and no one could say "with what words." Some had +been baptized by a woman, some by a fisherman. Painful it was to +witness, or be certified of, such complications and irregularities, +more so to be in any degree answerable for them, most of all to be +expected to unravel and rectify them in one visit of a few hours' +duration, knowing too that they must all be renewed and repeated. This +is the only harbour in White Bay where there are any French, and +these, it is worthy of notice, have come here within the last five +years, since the two English families established themselves in the +place. On their arrival this year, the French took up the Englishman's +salmon nets, and prevented his fishing for three weeks, until they +were informed by the officer sent from St. John's, that things were to +remain this year as in the preceding, and until matters were settled +by the authorities. The poor Englishman complains bitterly of being +deprived of his three best weeks' fishery, which, if they had been +only as good as the subsequent ones, must have been a serious loss. +This day he took in his nets about a hundred salmon, and speaks of +this as an ordinary catch--and his nets are not large or numerous. It +would be very sad and shameful if this branch of the fishery, which +clearly was not contemplated in the treaties, should be given up, +either wholly or in part, to the French. This is the last harbour in +White Bay. + +_Friday, July 22d. Hooping Harbour, at sea, and Englee._--We weighed +anchor soon after four o'clock. The wind so light that our men were +obliged to tow for nearly two hours; then it breezed up ahead, and +gradually increased, till by the time we had beaten up to Canada Bay, +some nine miles, it blew very hard. However, the harder it blows, the +better the good Church-ship goes; and before one o'clock we had +beaten-round Englee Island, in Canada Bay (our next place of call), to +the mouth of the harbour. But as nobody was "acquainted," and the +description in the book of directions was not satisfactory, and it was +blowing half a gale, we fired a gun, which brought out a boat, with +two hands, who showed us the course in, and where to anchor. On being +informed who we were, and what was our object in visiting them, they +expressed much pleasure; but said it would be difficult, if not +impossible, to bring off the children in such heavy weather. We had +service at five o'clock, but it was blowing so furiously that only six +men and as many women could venture off, and they brought none of the +little children. I determined, therefore (though the delay is very +grievous), that I ought to remain here to-morrow, which will involve +Sunday also. There are two other families in this bay, with whom it +was impossible to communicate to-day, in this tempest. We had Evening +Prayers, with an address by myself. After the service I conversed with +the people, and found that some of the women (one of them a mother of +three children) had never before seen a clergyman, and never been in +any place of worship. It would be interesting to know what they +thought and felt at the first sight of a bishop and two clergymen in +their canonicals, and the Church-ship, and yet more at the first +hearing of the Word of God read and preached to them, and the prayers +of the Church. + +_Saturday, July 23d. At Englee._--Directly after breakfast my friends +went across Canada Bay (three miles) in the boat, to make known our +presence to a family on the other side, a man and wife with eleven +children. They returned soon enough for the Morning Service, which was +attended by most of the inhabitants. A young woman, married and a +mother, was, on her own petition and profession, received into the +Church, and her behaviour was very becoming and edifying. In the +afternoon, when her sister, nineteen years of age, was hypothetically +baptized, she was affected even to tears. They both could read, and +though they had never before seen a clergyman of their Church, or been +present at public worship, they appeared to have an intelligent and +devout sense of the sacred nature and importance of the Service. +Several others, chiefly children, were admitted; nearly all of whom +had been baptized by the French priests, who accompany year by year +the fishing vessels from France. They (the priests) had performed this +service, without any intention, as it seemed, of bringing either +children or parents into the Roman Catholic Church. In one of the +families was an idiot son, whom the parents were very anxious to have +baptized. He is grown up, and though harmless in other respects, uses +very dreadful language. I went on shore and visited one of the houses +of a family, the father and mother of which go to St. John's every +fall, and while there the woman is a regular attendant at the daily +Prayers in the Cathedral. It was gratifying to find the house very +clean and well ordered in the absence of both father and mother, who, +unfortunately, are gone to some distant fishing station for the +summer. The young women who showed so much apparent good feeling at +baptism, are their children. Here the people keep cows and sheep, and +live in much comfort, and we obtained a small supply of milk and fresh +meat: I had not tasted any meat, and only once fowl, for a fortnight. +We have had no fresh meat on board, and the fish and salmon, of which +we have abundance for nothing, is in my judgment better and more +wholesome (not to speak of economy) than the salted and preserved +meats. For the same period, or rather longer, we have had milk, and +that goat's, only once; and nobody complains, of the privation. + +_Fifth Sunday after Trinity, July 24th. At Englee._--The fifteenth +anniversary of my first Sunday in Newfoundland. Shame that this should +be my first, in these fifteen years, which I have given to Englee. And +what a contrast! Then I went from Government House in the Governor's +carriage, with His Excellency and Lady Harvey, to preach my first +sermon, and administer for the first time the Holy Communion (it was +the first Sunday in July) in my Cathedral Church. The occasion, with a +fine day, brought a crowded congregation. Here, on this fifteenth +anniversary, I am at Englee in Canada Bay, on the French Shore, a +place inhabited by four families of fishermen, several of whom never +saw a clergyman or Church, very few of whom can read, not one able to +follow the order of Prayer intelligently, not one confirmed, not one +prepared to receive the Holy Communion, nearly half only yesterday +received into the Church. To make the contrast greater and more +dreary, the day is miserably wet and cold, so that several of the few +who otherwise could have attended, were unable to come on board the +Church-ship, on which the service was held, there being no convenient +place on shore. I celebrated the Holy Communion (as on every Sunday), +but no person partook of it except my own companions in the ship. The +only novel, or additional service, to mark more strongly the contrast +of time and place, was the conditional baptism of the poor idiot boy +on shore, between the Morning and Evening Prayers. He behaved very +well, knelt down and was quiet, and seemed to be quite aware that +something of solemn importance was being done. At the Evening Service +(the rain having abated) nearly all the inhabitants came on board. I +preached as usual, morning and evening. After the Evening Service, +children's books and tracts were distributed, and some Prayer-books +sold. Many inquiries were made about persons and subjects connected +with the Church in St John's. Such is the fifteenth anniversary of my +first Sunday, and first service in my Diocese; and if the day of small +things has come at the end rather than the beginning, who can tell +which shall be blessed, whether this or that, or whether both shall +be alike good? + +_Monday, St. James's Day. Englee._--I was not sorry to find this +morning that the wind was still ahead, so that we could observe the +holy day in harbour, and give my new disciples and children an +opportunity of again attending the service. This they did very gladly, +with my captain and crew, and I addressed them on the Gospel for the +day. It was strange to see grown-up people directed how and where to +find the places in their Prayer-books. In the afternoon the wind +seemed to veer in our favour, and about four o'clock we made an +attempt to leave; but the wind was unsteady and soon died away. After +Evening prayers, we rowed up to visit two Englishmen, who have lived +and fished together for fourteen years, without any family, or female, +in their house; the one a widower, the other a bachelor. One of them +comes from Southampton, the other from Ringwood. They are supposed to +have saved money, and might live in comfort elsewhere, but they prefer +this dreary, desolate existence, I presume, for the sake of their +worldly gains. I had but little time for conversing with them, but I +left them some tracts, &c. One of them has the reputation of a "fine +reader." + +_Tuesday, July 26th. Englee._--Another day of calm and trouble, +head-wind and heart-ache, for the delay is very grievous. In the +morning I visited all the people on shore, and in the afternoon they +all came on board to our service. + +_Wednesday, July 27th. Englee, at sea._--A light breeze sprung up in +our favour at seven o'clock, and at eight o'clock we were under way, +and cleared the Heads before ten o'clock. God be praised! + + * * * * * + + + + +PART II.--BAY OF ISLANDS. + +_Seventh Sunday after Trinity, August 7th. At sea, and in Lark +Harbour, Bay of Islands._--The wind continued to blow, and the sea to +rage and swell all night; and the rolling and dashing of the waves +against the side of the vessel were so incessant and violent that I +could hardly remain in my berth. At two o'clock the vessel was put +about, when I heard such a banging and thumping of the rudder, that I +ran on deck to ascertain the cause. I found the wheel deserted, there +being only two men on deck, and both engaged in hauling round the +yards. I took the wheel, in night-shirt and night-cap only, without +shoe or slipper, till the yards were round; fortunately not a long +operation. I turned in again till six o'clock, when I found we had +just weathered the southern entrance of the Bay of Islands; and, as +there was no change in the direction or force of the wind, I was very +thankful to have the prospect of a harbour, and of ministering to the +poor sheep in this bay, who have not seen a shepherd for four years. +We beat into Lark Harbour, against a violent head-wind, and did not +get to anchor till ten o'clock. The people on shore seemed to be +employed in turning their fish, and other daily labour; but on +sending to them, they expressed their readiness and desire to profit +by the services. We could not begin our morning service till twelve +o'clock, when the people had all come on board. Three children were +conditionally baptized. Evening service at half-past four o'clock, +after which three couples were married; one of these (couples) had +brought two children to be baptized at my first visit, _ten years +ago_; but it was nearly ten o'clock P.M., and just as my vessel was +leaving the bay. The father, I remember, had gone a great many miles +to fetch his children, and showed great desire to have them duly +baptized, and was _now_ equally anxious about his own marriage. I had +a good deal of conversation with some of the men, who seemed to +entertain a lively and grateful recollection of my former visit and +services. + +_Monday, August 8th. Bay of Islands._--The wind being very light I +determined to visit some of the settlements in this extensive bay in +my boat. Accordingly, Messrs. Johnson and Tucker, with one of the +sailors and a boy, rowed me to McIvor's Cove, where reside four +families, whom I have visited on each former occasion. They +accomplished the distance, about ten miles, in three hours. We arrived +at a quarter past one o'clock, after calling on the people, who all +recognised me, and with apparent pleasure; and desiring them to +prepare themselves and their children, and the best room, for a +service, we took our refreshment, which we had brought with us, in a +pretty green nook where a little river runs into the sea, using the +fallen trunk of a large tree for our table. It would have served for a +very large, or rather a very long party. We had our service in the +house of old Parks, who is mentioned in my Journal of 1849, as having +been visited by Archdeacon Wix. The children of three families were +brought to be received into the Church. It was very sad to witness the +ignorance, and almost imbecility, into which two of the three mothers, +who had been born and brought up in this wilderness, were fallen. The +third, who came from a distant settlement, and could read, was +different, and superior in every respect. One of the women, married +only five years, could not remember what her name was before marriage. +It would seem, too, as if the physical constitution degenerated with +the mental. Her child, which she brought to be baptized, had on one +hand two fingers, on the other only one, and on each foot only three +toes. I addressed them after the service; but I believe if my +discourse had been in Latin, it would have been as much, perhaps more, +attended to. The old woman began to talk to Mr. Johnson's little boy, +interrupting her own discourse and mine by occasionally telling the +dogs to "jump out," a command which from her, but her only, was always +obeyed; obeyed, but soon forgotten; for presently the same dog "jumped +in" again. The old man called for a match to light his pipe with, and +it was only by preventing his wish being complied with, that I could +engage his attention. After this painful service, and more painful +separation (for nothing could be more painful than to leave Christian +people in such ignorance and unconcern about their souls), we rowed +over to Frenchman's Cove (about two miles and a half), a lovely spot, +inhabited by two families of a better sort in knowledge and behaviour. +The men, unfortunately, were gone out, but they "would not have gone, +by no means, if they had known that his reverence was in the bay." The +women were very anxious to have their children duty baptized, and +listened with much earnestness to some words of advice and +instruction, and were very thankful for the books. Since my last visit +here a Nova-Scotian has built a store in this cove, and will be, I +greatly fear, a cause of misery to at least one of the families. I +admonished and exhorted him, and he thanked me for my advice like one +who had quite made up his mind not to regard it. I visited one of the +houses again, late in the evening, and heard one of the children, a +girl of ten or eleven years, say her prayers and Belief. I thought I +knew most of the varieties of + + "Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, + God bless the bed that I lie on," &c.; + +but this Bay of Islands' edition contained additions which I had never +heard, and could not comprehend. And the poor mother, who stood by +(the girl kneeling), sadly perplexed and distressed me by asking +whether this and that was right. I had no difficulty in telling her +that it was not right, when her child, in repeating the Creed, went +straight, as I observed several others did, "I believe in God the +Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth," to--"from thence He +shall come to judge the quick and the dead." + +_Tuesday, August 9th. Bay of Islands, and at sea._--It was grievous, +very grievous, to depart without visiting the other families about in +this bay--fully one hundred and twenty professed members of the +Church; but I dared not make any longer delay; and Frenchman's Cove, +where the Church-ship had joined us and was now anchored, is a +difficult place to get out of with a head-wind. It took us nearly +three hours to make our escape, not so much, however, through +head-wind as no wind. We had then to beat across the bay, and did not +reach the open sea till nearly six o'clock P.M. There we found the +old, unrelenting S.W. directly ahead, and soon got into a heavy sea; a +poor prospect for the night. + + + + +AN ACCOUNT + + +_Of the Places visited, with the time of Arriving at and Sailing from +the same, and of the Distances between them, by the_ BISHOP OF +NEWFOUNDLAND, _in his Visitation of the_ NORTHERN _and_ SOUTHERN +SHORES _of_ NEWFOUNDLAND, _in the Summer of 1859_. + +--------------------+-------------------+--------------------- + Sailed from. | Date. | Arrived at. + | | +--------------------+-------------------+--------------------- +St. John's | June 29, 2 P.M. | Twillingate + | | +Twillingate | July 6, 9 A.M. | Little Harbour Deep + | | +Little Harbour Deep | -- 9, 3-1/2 A.M. | Little Coney Arm. + | | + | | +Little Coney Arm | -- 11, 4-1/2 A.M.| Havling Point + | | + | | +Havling Point | -- 12, 5 A.M. | Jackson's Arm +Jackson's Arm | -- 12, 1 P.M. | Sop Island + | | + | | +Sop Island | -- 13, 3 P.M. | Gold Cove + | | + | | + | | +Gold Cove | -- 15, 6-1/2 A.M.| Purbeck Cove + | | + | | +Purbeck Cove | -- 16, 4-1/2 A.M.| Seal Cove + | | + | | + | | + | | +Seal Cove | -- 19, 9-1/2 A.M.| Hooping Harbour + | | + | | +Hooping Harbour | -- 22, 5 A.M. | Englee Harbour + | | + | | + | | +Englee Harbour | -- 27, 10 A.M. | Forteau + | | +Forteau | Aug. 2, 5 A.M. | Lark Harbour + | | + | | +Lark Harbour | -- 8, 10 A.M. | McIvor's Cove + | | +McIvor's Cove | -- 8, 4 P.M. | Frenchman's Cove +--------------------+-------------------+--------------------- + ++--------------------+-----------+------------------------------+ +| Date. | Distance | Services performed. | +| | in Miles. | | ++--------------------+-----------+------------------------------+ +| July 1, 9 P.M. | 180 | Sunday Services, | +| | | Holy Communion. | +| -- 7, 9-1/2 P.M. | 75 | Two Services, | +| | | Baptisms. | +| -- 9, 12 Night. | 19 | Sunday Services, | +| | | Holy Communion, | +| | | Baptisms. | +| -- 11, 10 A.M. | 11 | Afternoon Service, | +| | | Baptisms, | +| | | Marriages. | +| -- 12, 11 A.M. | 8 | | +| -- 12, 4 P.M. | 5 | Two Services, | +| | | Baptisms, | +| | | Marriages. | +| -- 13, 7-1/2 P.M. | 16 | Two Services, | +| | | Holy Communion, | +| | | Baptisms, | +| | | Marriages. | +| -- 15, 10 A.M. | 13 | Afternoon Service, | +| | | Baptisms, | +| | | One Marriage. | +| -- 16, 8 P.M. | 15-1/2| Sunday Service, | +| | | Holy Communion, | +| | | Baptisms, | +| | | One Marriage, | +| | | Afternoon Service, July 18. | +| -- 21, 3 P.M. | 42 | Afternoon Service, | +| | | Baptisms, | +| | | Churching. | +| -- 22, 12-1/2 P.M.| 8 | Sunday Services, | +| | | Holy Communion, | +| | | Baptisms, | +| | | Daily Service. | +| -- 29, 10 A.M. | 122 | Sunday Services, | +| | | Holy Communion. | +| Aug. 7, 10 A.M. | 161 | Sunday Services, | +| | | Holy Communion, | +| | | Baptisms. | +| -- 8, 1 P.M. | 10 | Afternoon Service, | +| | | Baptisms. | +| -- 8, 5 P.M. | 3 | Baptisms. | ++--------------------+-----------+------------------------------+ + +--------------------+-------------------+--------------------- + Sailed from. | Date. | Arrived at. + | | +--------------------+-------------------+--------------------- +Frenchman's Cove | Aug. 9, 10 A.M. | Sandy Point + | | + | | + | | + | | +Sandy Point | -- 5, 11-1/2 P.M.| Barrysway + | | +Barrysway | -- 16, 7 P.M. | Codroy + | | + | | +Codroy | -- 19, 10 P.M. | Channel + | | + | | + | | +Channel | -- 23, 9 A.M. | Burnt Islands + | | + | | +Burnt Islands | -- 23, 6 P.M. | Channel + | | +Channel | -- 26, 1 P.M. | Rose Blanche +Rose Blanche | -- 27, 12 NOON. | La Poele + | | + | | + | | + | | + | | +La Poele | -- 30, 6 A.M. | Burgeo + | | + | | + | | +Burgeo | Sept. 3, 8 A.M. | New Harbour +New Harbour | -- 4, 9 A.M. | Rencontre + | | + | | +Rencontre | -- 4, 1 P.M. | New Harbour + | | + | | +New Harbour | -- 5, 8 A.M. | Push-through + | | + | | +Push-through | -- 6, 6 P.M. | Hermitage Cove + | | + | | +--------------------+-------------------+--------------------- + ++--------------------+-----------+------------------------------+ +| Date. | Distance | Services performed. | +| | in Miles. | | ++--------------------+-----------+------------------------------+ +| Aug. 13, 7 A.M. | 103 | Sunday Services, | +| | | Holy Communion, | +| | | Confirmation, | +| | | Consecration of Graveyard, | +| | | Afternoon Service. | +| -- 16, 2 P.M. | 18 | Afternoon Service, | +| | | Confirmation. | +| -- 18, 5-1/2 P.M. | 40 | Two Services, | +| | | Confirmation, | +| | | Consecration of Graveyard. | +| -- 20, 5 P.M. | 24 | Sunday Services, | +| | | Holy Communion, | +| | | Confirmation, | +| | | Consecration of Graveyard. | +| -- 23, 1 P.M. | 10 | Afternoon Service, | +| | | Confirmation, | +| | | Consecration of Graveyard. | +| -- 23, 8 P.M. | 10 | Saint's day | +| | | Services. | +| -- 26, 8 P.M. | 15 | Morning Service. | +| -- 27, 5 P.M. | 15 | Sunday Services, | +| | | Holy Communion & | +| | | Confirmation, | +| | | Morning Service, | +| | | Holy Communion and | +| | | Confirmation, Aug. 29. | +| -- 30, 10-1/2 A.M.| 33 | Three Services, | +| | | Holy Communion, | +| | | Two Confirmations, | +| | | Consecration of Church. | +| Sept. 3, 6 P.M. | 47 | | +| -- 4, 10 A.M. | 3 | Morning Service, | +| | | Holy Communion, | +| | | Confirmation. | +| -- 4, 2 P.M. | 3 | Afternoon Service, | +| | | Confirmation, | +| | | Consecration of Graveyard. | +| -- 5, 7 P.M. | 20 | Two Services, | +| | | Holy Communion, | +| | | Confirmation. | +| -- 6, 9-1/2 P.M. | 13 | Three Services, | +| | | Holy Communion, | +| | | Two Confirmations. | ++--------------------+-----------+------------------------------+ + +--------------------+-------------------+--------------------- + Sailed from. | Date. | Arrived at. + | | +--------------------+-------------------+--------------------- +Hermitage Cove | Sept. 8, 2 P.M. | Pickaree + | | +Pickaree | -- 8, 5 P.M. | Gaultois +Gaultois | -- 8, 10 P.M. | Hermitage Cove +Hermitage Cove | -- 9, 10-1/2 A.M.| Cannaigre Harbour + | | +Cannaigre Harbour | -- 9, 3 P.M. | Harbour Breton +Harbour Breton | -- 10, 10 A.M. | Little Bay +Little Bay | -- 10, 2 P.M. | Harbour Breton + | | + | | + | | +Harbour Breton | -- 13, 7 A.M. | English Harbour + | | +English Harbour | -- 13, 4-1/2 P.M.| Belleoram + | | + | | +Belleoram | -- 16, 5 A.M. | Harbour Breton +Harbour Breton | -- 17, 8 A.M. | Brunet + | | + | | + | | + | | +Brunet | -- 18, 3 P.M. | Harbour Breton +Harbour Breton | -- 19, 5 A.M. | Lamaline + | | + | | +Lamaline | -- 21, 2-1/2 P.M.| St. Lawrence + | | + | | +St. Lawrence | -- 23, 5 A.M. | Burin + | | + | | +Burin | -- 26, 10 A.M. | Rock Harbour + | | +Rock Harbour | -- 26, 4-1/2 P.M.| Mortier Bay +Mortier Bay | -- 28, 10 A.M. | Oderin + | | + | | + | | + | | +Oderin | -- 30, 8 A.M. | Harbour Breton +--------------------+-------------------+--------------------- + ++--------------------+-----------+------------------------------+ +| Date. | Distance | Services performed. | +| | in Miles. | | ++--------------------+-----------+------------------------------+ +| Sept. 8, 3-1/2 P.M.| 3 | Afternoon Service, | +| | | Consecration of Graveyard. | +| -- 8, 5-1/2 P.M. | 3 | Consecration of Graveyard. | +| -- 8, 10-1/2 P.M. | 3 | | +| -- 9, 12 Noon. | 8 | Morning Service, | +| | | Consecration of Graveyard. | +| -- 9, 4 P.M. | 3 | | +| -- 10, 11-1/2 A.M.| 5 | Consecration of Graveyard. | +| -- 10, 3-1/2 P.M. | 5 | Sunday Services, | +| | | Holy Communion, | +| | | Confirmation, | +| | | Consecration of Graveyard. | +| -- 13, 11 A.M. | 15 | Morning Service, | +| | | Confirmation. | +| -- 13, 7 P.M. | 7 | Three Services, | +| | | Holy Communion, | +| | | Confirmation. | +| -- 16, 3-1/2 P.M. | 22 | Evening Service. | +| -- 17, 2-1/2 P.M. | 9 | Prayers, | +| | | Sunday Services, | +| | | Holy Communion, | +| | | Confirmation, | +| | | Consecration of Graveyard. | +| -- 18, 6 P.M. | 9 | | +| -- 20, 1 P.M. | 45 | Two Services, | +| | | Holy Communion, | +| | | Confirmation. | +| -- 21, 6 P.M. | 21 | Two Services, | +| | | Confirmation, | +| | | Consecration of Graveyard. | +| -- 23, 1 P.M. | 16 | Sunday Services, | +| | | Holy Communion, | +| | | Confirmation. | +| -- 26, 1 P.M. | 15 | Afternoon Service, | +| | | Confirmation. | +| -- 26, 6 P.M. | 6 | | +| -- 28, 3-1/2 P.M. | 17 | Afternoon Service, Sept. 28, | +| | | Saint's day Services, | +| | | Sept. 29, | +| | | Holy Communion, | +| | | Confirmation. | +| -- 30, 4 P.M. | 34 | | ++--------------------+-----------+------------------------------+ + +--------------------+-------------------+--------------------- + Sailed from. | Date. | Arrived at. + | | +--------------------+-------------------+--------------------- +Harbour Breton | Oct. 1, 10 A.M. | Spencer's Cove + | | + | | +Spencer's Cove | -- 1, 6 P.M. | Harbor Buffet + | | + | | + | | + | | +Harbour Buffet | -- 5, A.M. | Arnold's Cove + | | +Arnold's Cove | -- 5, 1-1/2 P.M. | Woody Island + | | +Woody Island | -- 6, 1 P.M. | Burgeo +Burgeo | -- 9, 6-1/4 P.M. | Isle of Valen + | | + | | +Isle of Valen | -- 9, 5 P.M. | Burgeo +Burgeo | -- 11, 5 A.M. | St. John's +--------------------+-------------------+--------------------- + +Places visited 48, of which 34 were visited in the +Church-ship, and 14 in boat: Holy Communion, 23 times: +Consecrated 1 Church and 13 Cemeteries: Confirmations, 28. + +------------------------------------------------------------- + ++--------------------+-----------+------------------------------+ +| Date. | Distance | Services performed. | +| | in Miles. | | ++--------------------+-----------+------------------------------+ +| Oct. 1, 2-1/2 P.M. | 9 | Afternoon Service, | +| | | Confirmation, | +| | | Consecration of Graveyard. | +| -- 1, 11-1/2 P.M. | 9 | Sunday Services, | +| | | Holy Communion, | +| | | Confirmation, | +| | | Afternoon Services, | +| | | Oct. 3 and 4. | +| -- 5, 9-1/2 A.M. | 16 | Morning Service, | +| | | Confirmation. | +| -- 6, 12-1/2 A.M. | 9 | Morning Service, | +| | | Confirmation. | +| -- 6, 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