Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 458
hese many shelters,rocks and ice are so fatal to shipping on thiscoast that the mail-boat rarely returns from atrip without bringing in some shipwreckedcrew. After one storm three hundred ship-wrecked sailors were transferred by her at Bat-tle Harbor to the larger vessel which pliesbetween there… … 446 ALONG NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR. [April, harbor our mate always took soundings, butbefore we let go the anchor our captain wouldsing out: Any timber, Mr. Parsons ? If themate said Yes, it meant that some vessel hadleft its poor old ribs on the rocky bottom, andwe must drift on and sound again.…
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