. Rod and gun. will sink is usual while shooting seals in thewater, to have two or three men inreadiness on a pan of ice and as soonas one is killed, they paddle out,stick a gaff in him and haul him to theside of the lake of water, where he ispulled up on the heavy ice. Swatch-ing is only resorted to when thesteamer is unable to get through theice, as it is very slow work and un-prohtable on account of the numberof seals which are sure to sink. During the whole voyage we werealways in sight of some of the othersteamers. One morning the look-outreported a file of men making their
. Rod and gun. will sink is usual while shooting seals in thewater, to have two or three men inreadiness on a pan of ice and as soonas one is killed, they paddle out,stick a gaff in him and haul him to theside of the lake of water, where he ispulled up on the heavy ice. Swatch-ing is only resorted to when thesteamer is unable to get through theice, as it is very slow work and un-prohtable on account of the numberof seals which are sure to sink. During the whole voyage we werealways in sight of some of the othersteamers. One morning the look-outreported a file of men making theirway towards our ship. Our captainknowing that something out of theordinary had happened, shut offsteam until they came aboard. Theyclimbed over the bulwarks, threwdown their packs and began fillingtheir pipes as if nothing unusual hadhai^pened. They proved to be part of a crew and their story was onenot unfrequently heard in New-foundland. Their ship had lost apropellor and was crushed in the A Wrecked Crew Takinii to the Ice after the snimer has Mink A LONELY FUR FACTOR 679 As the season was now practicallyover and our coal supply getting low,the captain decided to bear up forhome where we finally arrived on thethird day of May, all well with theexception of one man who had con-tracted a chill which developed intopneumonia. We found on entering port that we were the last arrivaland so, locked the doors to the ice-fields for that year. The fleet hadsuffered considerably, three of thewooden ones having gone to the bot-tom and the rest were all more or lessdamaged. A Lonely Fur Factor A Day at Wakeham Bay on the Labrador Coast Bernard THE good schooner Marie wasbound from Halifax, N. S., forFort Churchill, the renownedHudsons Bay Company Station. Wchad no intention of putting intoWakeham Bay on the LabradorCoast. Indeed I had never heard ofit; but it was there that it was fated Ishould meet the great North face toface for the first time. For days we
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