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THE STORY OF GRENFELL OF THE LABRADOR

The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador

A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell

By DILLON WALLACE, Author of "Grit-a-Plenty," "The Ragged Inlet Guards," "Ungava Bob," etc., etc.

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK CHICAGO Fleming H. Revell Company LONDON AND EDINBURGH

Copyright, 1922, by FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY

New York: 158 Fifth Avenue Chicago: 17 North Wabash Ave. London: 21 Paternoster Square Edinburgh: 75 Princes Street

Foreword

In a land where there was no doctor and no school, and through an evil system of barter and trade the people were practically bound to serfdom, Doctor Wilfred T. Grenfell has established hospitals and nursing stations, schools and co-operative stores, and raised the people to a degree of self dependence and a much happier condition of life. All this has been done through his personal activity, and is today being supported through his personal administration.

The author has lived among the people of Labrador and shared some of their hardships. He has witnessed with his own eyes some of the marvelous achievements of Doctor Grenfell. In the following pages he has made a poor attempt to offer his testimony. The book lays no claim to either originality or literary merit. It barely touches upon the field. The half has not been told.

He also wishes to acknowledge reference in compiling the book to old files and scrapbooks of published articles concerning Doctor Grenfell and his work, to Doctor Grenfell's book Vikings of Today, and to having verified dates and incidents through Doctor Grenfell's Autobiography, published by Houghton Mifflin & Company, of Boston.

D.W.

Beacon, N.Y.

Contents

I. THE SANDS OF DEE 11

II. THE NORTH SEA FLEETS 26

III. ON THE HIGH SEAS 31

IV. DOWN ON THE LABRADOR 39

V. THE RAGGED MAN IN THE RICKETY BOAT 52

VI. OVERBOARD! 61

VII. IN THE BREAKERS 68

VIII. AN ADVENTUROUS VOYAGE 74

IX. IN THE DEEP WILDERNESS 83