. Newfoundland at the beginning of the 20th century : a treatise of history and development . plendid naval reservesparaded to-day, who were composed of perfect seamen of toughfibre. My limited space is almost exhausted. It must sufficeto say that the weather became more boisterous, rainy too, asthe thundering guns announced the landing of the Duke. Butthe welcome accorded by this most English community of thewhole tour was cordial in the extreme. I repeat the mostEnglish. The people look English ; the houses look English ;the clubs are well supplied with English papers. It is a thou-sand piti
. Newfoundland at the beginning of the 20th century : a treatise of history and development . plendid naval reservesparaded to-day, who were composed of perfect seamen of toughfibre. My limited space is almost exhausted. It must sufficeto say that the weather became more boisterous, rainy too, asthe thundering guns announced the landing of the Duke. Butthe welcome accorded by this most English community of thewhole tour was cordial in the extreme. I repeat the mostEnglish. The people look English ; the houses look English ;the clubs are well supplied with English papers. It is a thou-sand pities that such a people should be discouraged in theirpatriotism, or should think themselves discouraged. Perhapsto-days prettiest scene was at the rink, where, under the electriclight, 6,000 children sang before the Duke and Duchess. Onefeature of the tour has been the wise prominence given to thechildren. THE HARDY SONS OF NEWFOUNDLAND. [From the London World, October 31, 1901.] After a quick voyage from Halifax, the Duke and Duchessof Cornwall reached St. Johns, where the hardy Newfound-. NEWFOUNDLAND. 73 landers gave them one of the brightest and heartiest welcomesof their whole tour. Fishing boats from all parts of the islandhad gathered in the harbor for the event, and on the evening ofthe Royal arrival the illuminations were most brilliant andeffective. Fifteen sealing steamers stretched in a long linedown the harbor, their rigging festooned with many-coloredlamps, and around lay various fishing craft, to the number of 800sail, all illuminated in like fashion. In the midst were thewarships, like huge towers of electricity, and on the lofty hillswhich rise above the harbor on either side, great BONFIRES WERE ABLAZE. The whole scene was like a vision of fairyland. A thousandyoung men marched in a torchlight procession through thetown down to the harbors edge near the « Ophirs » moorings,and there vented their loyalty in vociferous cheers. The nextday the Duke and Duchess w
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