Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 461
entof the Newfoundland merchant who has fittedup the stage. All the fishermen who occupythe tilts work for the merchant, and are paidfor their fish in provisions from the store. out boats, bottom up, and nets spread over theground to dry. Here, too, I saw for the firsttime the dapper little… … The tilts are like those seen in the New-foundland fishing and mining outposts (everysettlement in Newfoundland except St. Johnsis an outpost). The sides are logs set uprightand supporting sod-covered roofs — wretchedabodes at the best. Along the Straits of BelleIsle the Labrador coast is fringed…
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