Chapter I: Front Matter

_DR. GRENFELL'S PARISH_

_Dr. Grenfell's Parish_

_The Deep Sea Fishermen_

_By_

_NORMAN DUNCAN_

_Author of_

_"Doctor Luke of the Labrador"_

_New York Chicago Toronto_

_Fleming H. Revell Company_

_London and Edinburgh_

Copyright, 1905, by

FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY

THIRD EDITION

New York: 158 Fifth Avenue Chicago: 63 Washington Street Toronto: 27 Richmond Street, W London: 21 Paternoster Square Edinburgh: 100 Princes Street

_TO_

_THE CREW OF THE "STRATHCONA"_

Henry Bartlett, _Skipper_ Munden Clark, _Second Hand_ William Percy, _First Engineer_ John Scott, _Second Engineer_ Archie Butler, _Hospital Hand_ James Hiscock, _Cook_ Alec Sims, _Ship's Boy_

_TO THE READER_

This book pretends to no literary excellence; it has a far better reason for existence--a larger justification. Its purpose is to spread the knowledge of the work of Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, of the Royal National Mission to Deep-Sea Fishermen, at work on the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador; and to describe the character and condition of the folk whom he seeks to help. The man and the mission are worthy of sympathetic interest; worthy, too, of unqualified approbation, of support of every sort. Dr. Grenfell is indefatigable, devoted, heroic; he is more and even better than that--he is a sane and efficient worker. Frankly, the author believes that the reader would do a good deed by contributing to the maintenance and development of the doctor's beneficent undertakings; and regrets that the man and his work are presented in this inadequate way and by so incapable a hand. The author is under obligation to the editors of _Harper's Magazine_, of _The World's Work_, and of _Outing_ for permission to reprint the contributed papers which, in some part, go to make up the volume. He wishes also to protest that Dr. Grenfell is not the hero of a certain work of fiction dealing with life on the Labrador coast. Some unhappy misunderstanding has arisen on this point. The author wishes to make it plain that "Doctor Luke" was _not_ drawn from Dr. Grenfell.

N. D.

_College Campus,_
_Washington, Pennsylvania, January 25, 1905._

_CONTENTS_

I. The Doctor 11 II. A Round of Bleak Coasts 18 III. Ships in Peril 26 IV. Desperate Need 37 V. A Helping Hand 48 VI. Faith and Duty 55 VII. The Liveyere 67 VIII. With the Fleet 83 IX. On the French Shore 103 X. Some Outport Folk 110 XI. Winter Practice 132 XII. The Champion 146

_LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS_

"A Doctor ... the Prophet and Champion of a People" _Title_ "It is an Evil Coast" 20 "Bound North" 30 "A Turf Hut" 44 "Set Sail from Great Yarmouth Harbour for Labrador" 50 "Appeared with a Little Steam-launch, the Princess May" 55 "The Hospital Ship, Strathcona" 65 "The Labrador 'Liveyere'" 73 "At Indian Harbour" 86 "Set the Traps in the Open Sea" 93 "The Bully-boat Becomes a Home" 101 "The Whitewashed Cottages on the Hills" 111 "Toil" 122 "The Hospital at Battle Harbour" 133 "The Doctor on a Winter's Journey" 144 "A Crew Quite Capable of Taking You into It" 150

_Dr. Grenfell's Parish_