Labrador, the country and the people (1909) (14779270504)

Identifier: labradorcountryp02gren (find matches)
Title: Labrador, the country and the people
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir, 1865-1940
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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taking it in turn each weekto cook and superintend meals. The children at seven yearsof age, the most interesting period of child life, have toleave the parents, probably forever, to be educated at theSocietys schools in England or Germany. It is scarcelynecessary to say that the missionaries have no personal in-terest in the trade, and that their small income only clothesand provides absolute necessities for the famihes. Thepresent trade manager of the whole Mission, for many yearspast my most beloved friend, has made many long journeyswith me all along the coast. He is an excellent photog-rapher, sending the pictures home to help the deputationworkers to raise the necessary funds, and he is but the typeof all their men with whom I have been acquainted thesetwenty years past. Soon after my arrival at this station,I asked him if they kept photographic material in the store.After seeing the Eskimo brass band perform, it seemednatural they should perform also the simpler functions of a
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THE MISSIONS 235 photographer. ^No/ he repHed, ^but I have a smallprivate stock. Would you sell me some printing paper?I have run out. We may not sell privately, herepHed, but I shall be glad to give you half mine. Butthat you cannot afford to do. You must let me at leastdefray the actual cost. The Society gives us £23 ayear, he said, and that supplies all our needs. Whatdo I want more money for ? We have everything we canpossibly need. The whole conversation burnt into mymind. It is worthy of reproduction where it may be readby others, for it is typical of the spirit of all the workers,and shows they have learnt possibly the hardest lessonfor the world to learn, namely, the true value of gold,reckoning by the best standard. Some ninety miles to the south again is Hopedale, thesixth station. It is the southern border of the tribe now,and one cannot visit the station without feeling forciblythat the fringe is ravelling out, and that the race in Labradoris facing its inevitable doom. M