,^^^0- IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) t^ /. ^^ ^A u. 1.0 I.I 11.25 128 US |Z5 2.2 i' Z US, ill 2.0 lit m 6" VI % ''^r > > ..^ «^^ *>^«? ^<^^^ ^ ^^^ i?)i Photographic Sdmces Corporation 23 WEST MAI^ STREET i^urnt If^luntls. After breakfast I went in R. Eastman's boat up the river as far as the receding tide would allow, and then with ISIr. Gilford walked a considerable distance farther along the banks. The scenery is very lovely, and much reminded me of sylvan Wye with- out the *'silva3;" though the trees are as nume- rous and varied as you will easily find in Newfound- land — mountain-ash, birch, beech, hemlock, in addi- tion to the usual supply of fir and spruce. The banks are very lofty ^nd precipitous, and green ; with the characteristic bluffs and granulations which distinguish them from any other rocks or hills I have examined. The slope and general tournure more resemble the Malvern hills than the banks of the Wye, though far more abrupt, precipi- tous and irregular. The corners and summits are almost invariably rounded, and do not present sharp points or perpendicular faces. They would seem to have boiled up and been suddenly cooled and fixed, and not to have been broken off or rent asunder from neighbouring cliffs. There were several beautiful little falls in the river, and then between them the quiet silver thread for a short distance. I heard and saw more birds than ever before in any un- inhabited part of Newfoundland. We advanced till we came to a small brook some six feet wide running into the river, which I named Gifford's Brook. On our return we found the planter Hiscock from Burnt Islands, who brought us an offering of a smoked salmon, and wished to purchase some nisiior's VISITATION, 1819. 29 iuIh. the and nice books. Ho bought two large Prayer Piooks, and one of our largest octavo IJibles. lie attendiul our morning service in the cabin. lie again represented the earnest desire he and his neighbours ielt for a schoolmaster, and more frequent vi'^its of a Clergy- man. P^astmon brought us a present of fish and spruce beer, and humbly requested that his mistresy, of whom he seems very proud, might come on board. To this I gladly assented, and he brought her and the wife of his neighbour (Matthews) on board, and their delight was extreme. 1 showed them my por- table font and vessels for the Holy Communion, &c. and they seemed to have the same effect as the exhi- bition of King Solomon's treasures had upon the Queen of the south. He was very anxious that his wife should understand that all these things belonged to the Church and Church service, and added, " what vanity it would be to turn from such a Church." I gave him a large Prayer Book, and Svnnje's excellent tract in answer to all excuses and pretences for not coming to the Holy Communion, as he expressed the usual dread of partaking unwor- thily, and for fear of doing so thought it best not to partake at all. He was much gratified at the sight of my large Bible and Prayer Book. He has a very tohirable acquaintance with the Scriptures and Prayer Book, and though " he lives in this wilder- ness he does not forget the old ways ;" " but wliat," he said earnestly, " should I have done, if I had not attended to these things before I left England?" My boat returned from Rose Blanche at half-past- five n 80 DIOCESK OP NEWFOUNDLAND. s I might say, anywhere. Edward Brake has a houses ^ well-stocked garden at the base of one of the jiooie timber-clad mountains. His father came from Dorsetshire (Yetminster, I think) many years ago, and lived in this locality some sixty years. lie died in the year 1840, and left ten sons, of whom this Edward alone received any education, being sent to England for that purpose. He has a wife and four children, and one of his brothers, who appears weak, resides with them, unmarried. They were very glad of our arrival, when informed of our object and purpose. The father had baptized his own children, but expressed a wish that they should be baptized by a Clergyman, and they were baptized accordingly in the hypothetical form. The evening service was said, and the children baptized after the second lesson. Just before service began, the Church ship hove in sight, and I sent off our boat to meet 46 DIOCESE OF NEWFOUNDLAND. ii\ and warn her of a bar. But when the service was concluded, Church ship and boat were both out of sight. After waiting half-an-hour, during which we rowed Mr. Brake's boat to tlie mouth of the river, under the light of a bright moon nearly full, the mightj cliffs flinging their shadows over the still unbroken mirror beneath them, our boat returned, and reported the Church ship carried back by the receding tide on the centre of the stream, wherejt was far too deep to come to anchor. There was no wind. We overtook her some three miles down, and then putting the boat a-head, we managed to get into a cove and anchored in seven fathoms about half-past ten o'clock. Laus Deo. Thursday/ f Avgust 2d. — We rowed on shore soon after breakfast, intending to proceed to Tucker's Cove, the residence of another Brake. On our way we landed at Corner Brook, (near which the Church ship lay,) to see the course of the stream, and the nature of the land. The stream, however, was too shallow and the banks too thick with wood, to allow of our penetrating to any distance. We landed on the beach close to what might be called a natural garden— a thick border of beautiful rose trees, covered with flowers of two colours, and very fra- grant ; the bees were very busy among them. French willow was interspersed also in full flower, and vvithin this border gooseberries, currants, and raspberries in abundance. The gooseberries were equal to garden fruit, smooth, thin skinned, and with a beautiful bloom. ii.nough of them was soon bishop's visitation, 1849. 47 gatiiered for a substantial pudding. Leaving one of our party to fish in the brook, we proceeded to Tucker's Cove, where the children of J. Brake were baptized after the second lesson of the nr.orning service, as those of his brother yesterday. His wife is an Indian from St. George's Bay. He showed us the skins of three wolves he had killed close to his own house last winter. A pack of six infested the neighbourhood, and " fairly cleared the point of deer." He was afraid to let his children go out of the house. They were of a large size, measuring six feet from the s.iout to the end of the tail ; they are jaught in traps, and then and there shot. *• They are shocking fierce and dangerous entirely." In returning, we saw the Hawk spread her wings, and expected to see her make towards us, but presently «fter, all was close and still ; and we soon perceived, to my great mortification, that she was aground. We found her keeling over, or, as Mr. Jones said, " rebus inclinatis." Her keel had caught on a bank in going off. There w.s no remedy or relief till high water. After dinner we rowed down to Gillam's Cove, about nine miles, to visit a family named Blanchard. 'Hhe wind and tide were against us, and the pulling was very laborious. We reached the place just before sun-down. It is a beau^^Tul little farm, and has quite an miposing appearance from the water. The house is mean and dirty, and the oM patriarch, who has lived here nearly seventy years, was in a state of great filth and discomfort. He is nearly ninety years of age. His mental faculties 4S DIOCESE OF NEWFOUNDLAND. r ; i, arc good, but liis bodily strength is nearly gone. He welcomed us kindly, and spoke witii pleasure of Archdeacon Wix. A young man named Lorder was in the house, whom we had met coming towards us in a boat, intending to ask if we would take their dried iish, having concluded that we were traders. He had been shipped from Dorsetshire a few years a^o as servant to Mr. Brake, and had married and settled here. He expressed great anxiety to have his two childen baptized ; they were absent with their mother at Cape Gregory, fishing, fifteen miles off*; but lie resolved to bring them back to-morrow if I would remain till the evening. This I promised. Two children were baptized, and the evening service was fully performed. I examined the poor old man as * 1 his life, and heard him repeat the Lord's Prayer. He kissed my hand, and the hands of the other Clergymen, at our departure. This is, I believe, the second time only in nearly seventy years that he has seen a Clergyman, and in all probability this is the In.it time he Avill ever behold one. What will his "Nunc dimittis" be? I left him with feelings of sorrow and shame that I could do so little for his comfort or instruction. The return was much easier and quicker, in consequence of the wind having moderated, and we had the great satisfaction of finding the good Church ship afloat, and anchored at a greater distance from the neighbouring shoal. We got back soon after eleven o'clock. I pulled nearly the whoi<^. way. Friday^ August Zd. — We went on shore directly bishop's visitation, 1849. 49 after breakfast to visit a family who had returned from the fishery yesterday evening. The man is a Brake, brother to the Brakes mentioned before. The mother is a Micraac Indian from St. George's Bay. She appeared a notable, sensible woman, and she assured me slie could repeat the Lord's Prayer and Creed in her own language, with other prayers. Her father, she said, was Captain Jock. Four of their children were baptized with the conditional form. The mother assured me the baptism among her people was precisely the same. We then rowed down the Sound to Deep Cove, another settlement of Brakes. Two families reside there. One only we found nt home, and these just returned from the fishery. With them was an old man named Crocker, who reported himself as resident at Trout River, a settlement on the coast, about twenty miles to the eastward of the Bay of Islands. He also comes from Dorsetshire, but has been in. my years settled in this country, and has brought some land intj cultivation, and keeps many sheep and pigs, lie was the first settler at Trout River, is married to a sister of the Brakes, and has nine children, whom, and his place, he was very desirous we should see. Several, also, of the inhabitants of the Bay of Islands are now fishing at his settlement. I determined, if possible, to pay them a visit. At Deep Cove three children were baptized, with the morning service. We then joined the Church ship, which was beating down the Sound, but landed again at Half- B 50 DIOCESE OF NEWFOUNDLAND. ' 'im' way Point, where two families reside. Four children were baptized from each house. We next landed at Brooks' Cove, or "the Cove," which is nearly opposite to Gillam's Cove, and rivals it in beauty and fertility, and seems to surpass it in the squalor and misery of its owners and inhabitants. The evening prayers, &c. were said here, and an old Englishman appeared to join in them with pleasure. The household altogether was the most wretched and unsatisfactory possible ; the inhabitants being sunk into a state of the lowest ignorance and bru- tality, yet surely far more deserving of pity than of condemnation, at least from us. They reported them- selves as having nearly starved in the spring ; and their appearance betokened it. And yet their fields and gardens looked fair and fertile. But there was no blessing from above ; none of their good things were sanctified by the worr' of God and prayer. Even the dogs seemed more licentious and impudent than in other places, being under no kind of control. I gave the people, with a sad heart, such exhortations and instructions as I thought necessary and suitable, though how little, alas, adequat<*, or !^lifficient ! Saturday, August 4th. — We stood in to Mac Iver's Cove, and I visited the settler, one Park, whose two sons were baptized by Archdeacon Wix. His wife is an Indian from Burgeo. The man came from Burin. Our pilot, Thomas Beverley, resides with them in the summer, but in the .v inter retires to Harbour Island with a younger brother, to make hoops, &c. There w^ere no young children i 1.: -1 . ^ _.^Al.\,. bishop's visitation, 1849. 51 here to be baptized, and I therefore crossed over in my boat to Frenchman's Cove, leaving the Churcli ship to follow when they liad filled the water-casks. We took none of the crew : I rowed, with my three younger friends, and Mr. Jones steered. At Frenchman's Cove we found a Frenchman named Prosper Companion, with a wife and four children. He had just returned from two months' absence on the salmon fishery, and found his wife and younger children nearly starved. Tliey were, and long had been, entirely v/ithout bread, tea, or molasses, which are the chief articles of food. She looked very wretched. To add to her pains and troubles, she was far advanced in the fa^^Hy way. Prosper is, or was, a Roman Catholic, and he produced his " Le Petit Paroissien," which he had purchased a few years ago, and a little book or tract, '* Le Jeune Colporteur,'* given him by the captain of a French fishing-vessel— -a work directed against the proceedings of the Tract and Bible Societies' agents. The woman desired earnestly, that her four children might be baptized, and the father concurred in the petition. The morning service was celebrated, and the children baptized after the second lesson. Mrs. Companion had been married or united before to a person named Dargan, and she hoped I should meet with her son by that marriage, who, she said, would be very sorry if his children lost the opportunity of being baptized by a Clergyman. After the service, I directed the husband to accompany me to the Church ship, that I might ■'9 i mm 52 DIOCESE OF NEWFOUNDLAND. supply his wife and children with some necessary food and physic. Nothing can exceed the beauty of this cove, or its apparent fertility — roses and wild fruits of various kinds in profusion on the beach, and forest trees of luxuriant growth clothed the rear-hills to the very ridge. And amidst all this beauty and profusion, the people were in a state bordering on starvation. On returning to the Church ship, we discovered Mr. Crocker on board, who had offered to accompany us to Bonne Bay. He was somewhat di.^jappointed to learn that I intended to visit Lark Harbour before leaving this bay, as he is in a hurry to proceed. While I was in some per- plexity thereupon, the wind entirely failed us, and we were drifted by the current upon a bank off the south-east corner of Harbour Island, w^hich effectu- ally relieved me of all doubt as to my departure before night, though such a discomfiture is anything but agreeable in itself I dismissed my first pilot, T. Beverley. He appears a simple-minded, honest creature, and he made many promises of a strict and upright life, according to his knowledge and oppor- tunities. At 3 o'clock we took boat, v;ith two of our crew and the son of our pilot, to row to Lark Harbour, nine miles. We started with a sail ; but the wind soon came ahead, with a very heavy sea. When we had advanced half-way, we saw two boats which our young pilot knew to have come from Lark Harbour. We therefore turned aside to speak, and discovered in one boat John Bailey, and a grown-up daughter and young child, and in the other two ■11 bishop's visitation, 1849. 53 women (one of whom was Mrs. Wheller) all going from Lark Harbour to the Sound. They had, how- ever, left children behind them. I was in very great doubt what course to take, as we had lost more than an hour by turning aside, and the wind was right ahead, with a great swell. After, however, asking counsel, 1 resolved to proceed, and at least make the attempt. It was difficult and disagreeable work, but, by the blessing of God, we reached the harbour at a quarter past 7 o'clock, just in time to witness a most splendid sunset in a most lovely and noble gorge. Three families here inhabit during the summer months, in little temporary cabins, in which one bed, one box, one bench, and one kettle, seem all the furniture. In one of these, however, the evening service of the Church was duly and devoutly celebrated ; and great was my surprise, and greater my delight, to hear the poor ragged fisherman who knelt by my side at the foot of his bed, join audibly and earnestly in the general confession, and afterwards in the Lord's Prayer, &c. On putting a prayer-book into his hands, I found he could read correctly ; and he really seemed to devour the words. He had been taught to read by his uncle, Michael James ; and this was the only instance I met with of any person who had been taught to read or taught to pray in this whole bay. Indeed, I did not find another person, born and brought up here, who could dis- tinctly say the Lord's Prayer. I made him a present of the book he had used, and he really seemed to f 1 il 54 DIOCESE OF NEWFOUNDLAND. i iv- regard it as a treasure. Here we baptized four children, and departed soon after 8 o'clock. Tlie sea, happily, had lulled, and the wind helped us a little occasionally, and, with the good hand of our God upon us, we joined the Church ship— released from her disagreeable and discreditable recumbency, and under sail — about 1 1 o'clock. The wind was light, but the night beautifully fine, and soon after midnight we had taken leave of the Bay of Island:?, and were creeping gently along the shore towards Bonne Bay. Mr. GifFord had not accompanied us, in consequence of his hands being too sore to admit of his pulling any more ; and it was providentially ordered that during his stay two families were brought on board tiie Church ship, that the children might be baptized. One was the younger Blanchard, who had come with his wife and children in an open boat, all the preceding day and night ; and the other Lorder, whom we had seen at Blanchard's, senior, and who with his wife had rowed some fifteen miles, to bring his children for the baptism. I do not know how to be thankful enough for this and the many other mercies of this eventful week. The weather has been uninterruptedly fi^ne ; and our very hindrances and discomfitures seemed to have been ordered to promote and complete m.y desired ends. I should have had only reason to regret if I could have departed one hour sooner. O ! that men would therefore praise the Lord for His goodness. Sunday, August 5th. — I do not know that our pilot had contrived or would contrive it so, but it ^i r.isiiop's VISITATION, 1849. 55 was so that at 7 o'clock tliis morning we were just off his residence at Trout Cove, and it was sug- gested that we might go on shore. I sent him off to make preparations, and he returned with three others to row us to the land, the vessel standing on and off. At 9 o'clock the morning service com- menced, the congregation consisting of Mr. Crocker's family, with some Blanchards and Brakes from the Bay of Islands — seventeen in all. The three Clergymen wore their surplices, and my little font was used, with the usual ornamental covering of the table. Baptisms in the hypothetical form were solemnized after the second lesson. Nine of Crocker's family were so baptized, and three of John Brake's, the widower. Crocker has a good deal of land under cultivation, and grows turnips, barley, &c. His garden is well cultivated, and ap- parently he is in very comfortable circumstances, but grumbles like an Englishman, and declares he has a hard matter to keep his family. He had himself baptized all his own children but one. His wife, however, was urgent that all might be now baptized, and he concurred ; and therefore the hypo- thetical form was used. We returned on board immediately after the service, leaving Crocker behind on his own petition. At eleven o'clock we celebrated divine service in the large cabin ; the captain and two sailors, with my servant, attended. At two o'clock, p.m. we entered the Little (or Rocky) Harbour, just to the east of Bonne Bay, and close to the entrance. This 56 DIOCESE OF NEWFOUNDLAND. mil is rather a roadsteud than harbour, but it is pro- tected, except from the north-west winds. At three o'clock my friends went on shore, and were kindly welcomed by an old Englishman named Paine. His wife is an Englishwoman, the only one, I be- lieve, on the shore, and they were married in St. John's by parson Harris, forty years ago. Since then he has constantly resided at tiiis place, and has seen two generations grow up around him. He can read, and produced his Prayer-Book and *' New Manual," which appear to have been well used. He is very anxious to obtain a new copy of the " Manual," and I regretted that I could not supply him. On the return of my friends to the Church ship we celebrated the evening service — all the crew in attendance. At five o'clock we went on shore, and in Mr. Paine's house said again the evening service, and after the second lesson baptized the children which had never participated in that sacrament. I addressed the congregation after the service, and had much conversation with them, and was greatly pleased and thankful to find them apparently very earnest and serious. Great regret was expressed that more of their friends and relatives had not been able to attend, and that they could not all more irequently and regularly enjoy the benefits and blessings of the ministrations of the Church. With the children there were not fewer than thirty persons present at the service, besides my party. The whole number of inhabitants, (exclusive of a Roman- catholic family, the head of which rejoices in the BlSIIOr's VISITATION, 18 i9. 67 mime of Xavicr Jardinier,) must be nearly fifty, and alas!. this is the first time that any minister of religion has visited them, or any of the holy offices of the Church been duly celebrated among them. After the service I examined the garden, and found fine peas and other vegetables in abundance. We then walked round the harbour. There seems to be good slate on the coast ; the interior is thickly wooded, with beautiful streams of water. This has been a holy day, if not in every sense a sabbath. Two services on shore and two at sea on the same Sunday seldom fall to the lot of a Bishop or any Clergyman in these days, and I desire to be duly and truly thankful for such a privilege. Some of the people came on board in the evening, and were supplied with children's books and tracts. 3Iondai/, Avgitat 6th. — We got under way about seven o'clock, after the men had replenished our water-casks at Mr. Paine's clear spring in his garden. Horace's wish appears Jo have been granted in this case — " modus agri non ita magnus ; Hortus ubi, et tecto vicinus jugis aqua; fons." Our men found the people assembled at five o'clock, and Mr. Paine reading to them the tracts I had sent yesterday. The vdnd was light the whole day, and part of the day a-head, and we did not reach Cow Cove (twenty miles) till nearly seven o'clock in the even- ing. The cove is a roadstead to the south and west of Cow Head; to the north of the Head is a harbour, 58 mOCKSE OF NEWFOUNDLAND. but it is not of easy access, in conaoquence of somo roclta lying at the entrance. The neck of land which divides Shallow Harbour from Cow Cov(; is not more tlian a quarter of a mile across, and on this neck lie the liouses, five or six in number. We found most of the inhabitants at home, and besides them two families from Daniel's Harbour, a place about twenty-one miles to the northward ; and one family from St. Paul's Bay. We called on most of the people, and soon discovered that several of them are living in a most loose and licentious way ; one woman, I fear, cohabiting with two men ; others separated from a first husband and living with another man. We arranged to have a service and baptize the children to morrow (if it please God) at nine o'clock, in the house of one Vincent, who appears a respectable old man, and respected by all liis neighbours. Tuesdai/, August 7th. — The wind was fresh in the night, but happily off the land, and we felt no inconvenience ; but it is a too much exposed place for any but the summer season. We went on shore at nine o'clock, with the usual furniture, and the small font, &c. While ray friends were preparing the room, I talked to the men outside, and an old gentleman, who reported himself the " chief of the place " said to me seriously, " Please your majesty, I have a petition to request, if you will be so well- pleased as to grant it. Will you be pleased to give me a grant to have the prayers of the Church read in my house every Sunday ? " '■:i i BlSIIOr's VISITATION, 1849, 60 I tolil liirn how far I could and would gladly comply with his rcciuoHt. Then he said, *' 1 have another petition to riMpiest ; Will you give me a grant to have stocUrf put up to punish the unmannerly hoys ?" He then spoke of the grief nnd trouble which the misconduct of his own children had caused him. lie ajjpcared in earnest, and I felt for him. The room was very full ; some of the inhabitants had live! in St. George's Lay, and had there nt- tended the service, but to most of the people it was a novelty. Tliey were, however, provided in most cases with godparents for the children. Fully thirty adults wero present, and as many children. Most of the children had been baptized by Mr. Vincent, who g:^ve a clear and satisfactory account of what he had done. I instructed the people on the n jture and necessity of baptism, the meaning and use of godparents, &c. ; and after the service was concluded I addressed them generally on their state, and spoke particularly of the sin of men separating from their wives, or women from their husbands, though the marriage might have been only a promise before witnesses. One man had applied to me to be mar- ried to a woman who had been united to another man, but had left him, as it was said, before she had any children. By her present partner she had four children. The man, with a cousin of the same name, is from Haselbury -Bryan. They could read but very imperfectly, and seem to have led irregular lives. Well do I remember examining, as inspector 60 DIOCESE OF NEWFOUNDLAND. \U ■ \' fii :; 1 ^B the school in that parish, and Mr. W interposing to assure the children 1 hat tliey were not children of God except they were converted. When the service had concluded, many of the men assured me they would gladly pay towards the maintenance of a Clergyman if they could only be visited twice or thrice a-year. This was the lirst visit of a Clergy- man to their settlement. I departed with a heavy heart at the thought of leaving so much vice uncorrected, and of being able to hold out no hopes of amelioration. We went on board at noon. Some young men came off for books. One, named Banfield, had been wrecked five years ago in St. George's Bay. He had removed to this place as servant to one of the planters, and was doing, as he said, very well ; but suffered a good deal from a disease in the gums, which affected his cheek. He has several times written to his friends, but had received no reply. His father is a wheelwright in Suffolk. I felt an interest in the lad, both on account of his misfortunes, and his modest and gentle manners, and in my mind I fixed him for a schoolmaster. I supplied him with a large Prayer-Book, to be used for the Sunday service, and some school books, &c. for the children, and physic for himself. AVe were under way soon after twelve o'clock with a fiiir wind, which, however, soon failed us and came ahead. In the evening we had two hours' fine run, but again, before ten o'clock, we were becalmed off Portland Creek. Unques- tionably and urgently is a Missionary needed on this bishop's visitation, 1849. 61 shore : — if, at least, ignorance and vice, with all at- tendant and consequent wretchedness, constitute such need. From Bay of Islands to Port au Choix, a distance of about sixty miles, are three hundred and twenty inhabitants, nearly all of English parentnge, at least on the fatlier's side. Where the means of subsistence are so abundant, the population may be expected to increase rapidly ; and what a melancholy prospect ! Their present state is indeed sad and sinful enough, but in the common course of things the "progenies vitiosior" must ensue. There is but one remedy, and that one I ought to apply, and will, if it please God to send the man and the means, or the man without the meanc, the Missionary. Wednesdaijy August Sth. — I had intended that our next place of call should be St. John's Island, but in the night we considerably overshot it, and as the wind in the morning was fair for Forteau, and there seemed every probability of reaching it before (lark, I thought it best to stand on. We were favoured as all along, and happily came to anchor in Forteau Bay by seven o'clock. Mr. Ellis came on board, and gave a good report of the fishery. From St. John's he had received no intelligence since his departure, eight weeks ago. Thur. ' -^,::,;;■■^■■;. ^ : ^ ' -'>'-•' v" > 86 DIOCESE OF NEWFOUNDLAND. /.-f but God can take away the heart of stone, and give him a heart of flesh. He and several others at- tended evening prayers on board, at half-past six o'clock. Seveial very pleasing girls (three) named Taylor, from Carbonear, attended, and informed me that their father intends to settle somewhere in the Straits on the Newfoundland shore. Saturday, August 25th. — This day last year I was , very nearly in the same latitude as to-day, and becalmed. My anxiety to depart was of course not diminished, but much increased, this morning ; but alas ! there was no wind at all till eight o'clock, and then it was ahead. I waited till twelve o'clock, when, though there was no change in the wind, I thought it right to try what the tide might do for us, hoping also that the wind might veer as the day went on. We got out soon after twelve o'clock ; but the current did not help us, and, soon after three o'clock, the wind quite failed, and we were fain to return, and with difficulty got into Chateau, or Temple Bay, through Temple Pass. This bay is very large, and the water very deep. If the water were not so deep, it would be a magnificent harbour. The hills are high and steep, and in part clothed with spruce, but of stunted size. It is the prettiest place I have seen on the Labrador, except Sandwich Bay. We were obliged to have our boat out to tow for some time before we got to the entrance or pass. Just as we had got through, a boat from shore came to offer assistance, and show us the anchorage. We HISIIOP'S VISITATION, 1849. 87 nnchored in twelve and a liulf fathoms, not far from the stages on the south side of Temple Pass. Fog came on, and we had reason t j be thankful we had not proceeded further. I have left the determina- tion in each case to the captain, not without prayer for his instruction and direction. I did indeed earnestly hope and pray that I might spend next Sunday (to-morrow) in Newfoundland, and with people to whom the Church services would have been of greater value, and who would have more valued them. I cannot help thinking also of the dangers and difficulties of last year's Visitation in the month of September. 1 heartily wish I could follow old Hesiod's advice, for of the reason annexed I well know the truth and importance : — " tiasto homeward ! haate ! Nor the * fall-fish' with Autumn's showers await : For then does stormy blast From all points of the compass circulate." * Sunday, August 26. — We found it necessary, in order to accommodate the congregation, to remove all the boxes from the cabin, and to bring down the hen-coops and one of the thwarts from the boat for seats. The washing-stand might have been removed also, if we had thought of it, and room obtained for another seat , The, lectern was placed at the end of the table, near the door to the cooking- room, and * ffir€v5eiv 5' ottj rdxtcra irdhiv oiKovSe vUadai' jurjSe ixeveiv olvop re v4cv Kol dirwpivov ofifipoy, Srf t6t€ iraPTolwv dvifjuwv Otiovaiv drjrof II w 88 DIOCESE OF NF.WFOTJNDT.ANI). a seat constructed for myself on one side, and Mi*. Jones on the other side, of the lectern. These were; covered with blue curtains. We robed in my cabin, and had some difficulty in making our way through the congregation to our places. Mr. Jones counted sixty-three persons, and nearly all were well grown up. As nearly all were Methodists, I thought it a good opportunity of teaching something about the constitution and requirements of a Church, and preached a discourse on apostolic doctrine and fel- lowship, from Acts ii. 41, 42. In the afternoon the congregation was not quite so large ; rather over fifty, I believe. In the evening I went on shore with Mr. Moreton,and read and prayed with a sick woman, the wife of Mose^ Clarke, jun., from Carbonear, and therefore probably a Methodist ; but I did not think it necessary or becoming to decline such a service, under such circumstances, upon the sus- picion, or even on the certainty, of her being brought up in error and heresy. I walked on the hills, and saw remains or marks of an old battery, probably of French construction. The wind was blowing strong all day from north-west, and would have taken us over to Newfoundland in a few hours, if I had thought it right to sail on a Sunday. Mr. Vatcher, the "Wesleyan teacher, and , (the reputed man of murderous purpose,) were at both services. Who knows that I may not have been detained here for the benefit of one or other of these, through the appointed services of the Church ! Certain it is I was not here of my own choice, and I endeavoured bishop's visitation, 1849. 89 to turn the occasion to profit, for the edification of the people and the glory of God, through Jesu& Christ. Araen. Monday, Avgust 27th. — The wind was again, happily, fair this morning, and before nine o'clock we were under way, Moses Clarke and his crew having come to our aid in getting out of the Bight. We were prevented sailing at an earlier hour by violent showers of rain. We reached Quirpon about two o'clock, and entered the harbour on the western side of the island, having asked, a French boat to show us in. The skipper instantly complied, crying, " Follow me," and dowsed his foresail. But, unfor- tunately, he could not speak another word of English, and all our directions were obtained by gestures and gesticulations, which were so earnest and emphatic that it was pretty certain we were in some difiiculty or danger, as turned out the case, for we went close to a sunken rock. When I cried out, "Je vous remercie heavcoup,^^ his countenance brightened, and he said, in reply, " Voulez-vousmouiller T I said, " Old, oui^^ on which he gave us another and parting direction, by hand and mouth. The former answered the purpose, but I could not understand his oral directions. We came to anchor near several large French vessels, and alongside an establishment on Grave Island. We were surprised to find no less than twelve large French vessels (barques and brigs) in the harbour, waiting to take away the fish. There are five considerable establishments, which seem to be conducted in a very orderly, systematic, and efficient 90 DIOCESE OF NEWFOUNDLAND. " r v/ay. The stages are much larger than those com- monly erected by English rooms, and are closely covered with white sails ; the sides of spruce boughs, neatly and substantially fixed. The heaps or stacks of fish are also closely covered with sails on the top, tied down with ropes. The boats are very strong and heavy, all of the same size and shape, with sharp stems, each numbered, and each furnished at the top of the mast with a small vane, some of which were tricolor, but generally blue and red. Their ships also are smarter than those in the English trade. We saw a cottage near us on the shore, looking like that of a settler. Moreton went on shore to make inquiries, and obtained the necessary informa- tion as to the residences and other circumstances of the English inhabitants. There appeared to be eight families, nearly all emigrants from Harbour Grace, both men and women. One woman (a widow) has resided thirty-five years here : the Pynnes (the chief family) fourteen years. No Clergyman of our Church ever visited the settlement. A French priest usually visits the place every year, but remains only a few days ; and this year, it is said, only one day. I presume he comes from Crocque. Almost every French room (there are five in this harbour) is pro- vided with a doctor or medical man. The men on each room probably average one hundred in number. Their catch of fish is said to be about five thousand quintals this year. Last year they were more suc- cessful. bishop's visitation, 1849. The chief French fishing establishments : — 91 ii Quirpon 9 rooms,— 12 ships. Griguot, 3, and Lunair, 3 . . 6 „ 3 or 4. Braha (Little and Great) . . 6 or more St. Antony 3 „ 4 Crocque 1 did not visit or see. Quirpon is reputed the most successful. The same crews come there for five years and are then changed. I counted six large vessels as we passed Braha, and there probably were more. As we did not go into the harbour, I could not ascertain the number of rooms in the place. All the rooms I saw appeared on the same scale and system as at Quirpon. Most of their establishments had a flag- staff, with a tricolor flag, on some eminence. The French at Quirpon fish with the bulto, and with enormous seines, one hundred and fifty yards long, and proportionably deep. Mr. Moreton visited most of the Englisli settlers, jmd arranged to have evening prayers, with baptisms, nt the house of Mrs. Eartlett, alias her son-in-law, C. Tucker. The service was celebrated accordingly, and nineteen sweet children w^ere admitted into the Church. The room was full. Two or three of the French captains or agent3 were present. I was delighted to find a well-dressed and well-mannered people, and children as healthy in appearance, and clean and gentle, as any in the more southern settle- u t i. ^^ 92 DIOCESE OP NEWFOUNDLAND. ments. The settlors seem to depend as much upon the seals as the fish, or perhaps more. They are paid (chiefly in bread) by tlie Fro,nch for taking care of their rooms, boats, &c. in the winter. They depend for other supplies upon dealers from St. John's and Harbour Grace, who bring pro- visions and clothes, &c., and take in exchange their fish and oil. No more than two or three persons in the settlement can read ; but one of them (Henry Tucker) reads some of the Church prayers ^every Sunday, and the inhabitants meet at the house of Mr. Pynne, sen., for the service. During last winter, the prayers were read by a young man who was wrecked in the neighbourhood. There was a good deal of sickness, and one young woman (a wife and mother) died ; and her loss appears to have deeply affected the whole party. Her husband pointed out her grave to me, with many tears. It was very neatly fenced ; the shipwrecked sailor had cut four stanzas of verse upon a head-board, and the husband had painted over the letters with his own hands. Several other graves were neatly fenced. I exhorted the people to enclose and fence a sufficient quantity of ground for a common burial- place, and dispense with private enclosures, and this they promised to attend to. I addressed the people after the evening prayers, as in other places, chiefly on the nature and neces- sity of baptism, and on the meaning and use of sponsors. We did not return to the Church ship till after ten o'clock. I promised, if we should be BISIlor's VISITATION, 1849. 98 pon are ing detained to-morrow, to have morning service in the same house. Tneadayy August 28th. — The wind was ahead, and blowing very fresh. We therefore, according to promise, celebrated morning service in the same house as yesterday. All the people of the settle- ment were present, and very attentive. After the service I walked with my friends on Newfoundland, (we had held the services on Quirpon Island.) It if three weeks to-morrow since we were on New- foundland. Our last place of call was Cow Head. In the evening we had service at the house of Mr. Pynne. Three or four children were brought from Noddy Harbour to be received into the Church. We had met the father (Mr. Reid) at Battle Har- bour, and there baptized two of his children ; and he earnestly hoped and requested we would inquire for his other children if we went to Quir- pon ; though he feared, on account of the dis- tance of their residence (Noddy Harbour) from Quirpon, the mother might not be able to bring them before us. I was very thankful, for his sake and his children's, that his wishes could be gratified. The children were nicely dressed and mannerly. I addressed the people after both services as I hoped might be most suitable and instructive in their cir- cumstances. They expressed much desire to have a teacher for their children. Wednesday, August 29th. — The wind was fair this morning, and though it was still foggy, we crossed the harbour with the assistance of young li, m US. 94 DIOCESE OF NEWFOUNDLAND. i Mr. Pynnc, which we could hardly have done even in clear weather without a pilot, as there are several dangerous shoals. At the south-east eitd of the Iiarbour is a tickle, which divides Quirpon from Newfoundland, and in which vessels lie. By this tickle we made our exit from Quirpon, and found ourselves on the eastern coast of Newfoundland. The harbour of Griguet is not more than live or six miles from Quirpon, and we were at tlie entrance by seven o'clock, but were a long time beating in, as the wind nearly failed us, and the little that remained was ahead, and the entrance, very narrow of itself, was made more difficult by nets, which we were unwilling to injure. Our boat was towing, and two or three times the bows of the vessel all but touched the rocks. Two families only resiile in this place, and Mr. Pynne, who had accompanied us, went on shore to prepare the people for a service at eleven o'clock, as I hoped to get away in the afternoon. There are three French rooms here. It is a very pretty place ; the harbour running up behind several islands, and the main land showing a good deal of wood and vegetation. We went on shore at the time ap- pointed, but found the people so busy with their fish, that though they oflered to put by their work for the service, I saw it would be a great accom- modation and benefit to them to defer it till the evening. We had come too suddenly upon them to allow of their making preparations. We therefore returned on board for the morning service, and UISIIOP'S VISITATION, 1849. 95 learning that in the next bay (St. Lunaire, or St. Leonard) there was a family, and the mother confined only yesterday, I determined to walk there, the distance not being more than two miles. This, with the help of a guide, we accomplished in half an hour ; but we had then to row across the bay, which occupied us rather more time. Our guide amused us with an account of his shooting: a larire white bear in the woods. He and a companion followed the beast six miles in the woods, and then he turned upon them, and they had to run ; but being able to move quicker round the trees, they managed to put the contents of four sealing guns in him, and stopped his journey. lie was nine feet long, and the men obtained between eighty and ninety gallons of oil from his fat, and sold his skin for four pounds. " Scattered ones," our guide in- formed us, come down on the ice every spring, and as the season goes forward they come back overland to get northwards. Lunaire is a large bay. Three French rooms and several vessels. The father of the family (one Peaty), was out hunting, and the mother in bed. We bap- tized her infant nnd six other children. We returned, by the way we had come, in about an hour. The walk was very pleasant ; not so the boat, in conse- quence of the abominable stench. We dined at half-past four o'clock, and at half-past six I and Mr. Jones went on shore. We held service in the house of one S. Hill, an old Englishman. The room, furniture, and people were very neat and clean. 96 DIOCESE OF NEWFOUNDLAND. \i\ 1 i 1 ml m H ' 1 Two or three French oaptuiriH nttciuled the ser- vice, and I was much pleased to find several of our friends from Quirpon, who had walked over ivr the purpose. Eleven cliildren were admitted into the Church. I addressed the people as at Quirpon. Tlio service was not concluded till after nine o'clock. 2Viursdcii/y Aiujmt ZOth. — Weighed anchor witli a fair wind at six o'clock ; but it was necessary, or became necessary, to make a tack in going out, and the poor Church ship was so nearly on the rocks that the captain was glad to let go the anchor, and, with Mr. Thomey's help, to warp the vessel off. AVe were out about eight o'clock, and between ten and eleven came into St. Mein Bay, on the left hand side of which is St. Anthony's Harbour. We came to anchor soon after eleven o'clock, near the first French room. There are three in this harbour, and four large vessels, one of them a barque. The tricolor was hoisted on the flag-staff when we came in. My friends landed and entered the first cjttage, nearly opposite the French room, which turned out to be that of J. Macey. They were fortunate enough to meet several of the neighbours in the house, (the woman having been confined two or three days ago), who all expressed themselves glad and thankful for our arrival, and promised to inform their neighbour?, far and near, of our intention of holding service in the evening. We attempted in the mean time to walk to the next harbour, (Cremaillere), but having no guide msiiop*s VISITATION, 1849. 97 we missed the path; and endeavouring to mount a hill to look for anotlier, I got with Moreton into some tangled wood, through which we had groat difficulty in forcing our way, and did not effect it without much hurt and damage to our clothes. We only succeeded in seeing the bay, but could not reach it. At six o'clock, Moreton went on shore to prepare the house and people for the service. Thirty- six children were brought to be admitted into the Church. The service commenced at seven o'clock, and, with my address, occupied nearly three hours. The woman lately confined then prayed to be churched ; and after that a couple prayed to be married, and then a second couple ; so that Mr. Jones, who stayed to celebrate the marriage service, was not released till nearly eleven o'clock. The people behaved exceedingly well, and I was pleased with them and their children. They are chiefly from Carbonear. One woman told me she had been confirmed by Bishop John (Bishop of Nova Scotia), another by Bishop Spencer. Thirty at least of the children were young enough to be at school ; some, indeed, too young. There are probably twenty-five who ought now to be under instruction. Several of the men can read ; some can write also. In the course of my address I recommended that some one should read part of the Church service every Sunday Some women put forward a request to have their graveyard consecrated ; but finding they had only private family enclosures, I said they must fence a piece of ground sufficient for the whole settlement, f 98 DIOCESE OF NEWFOUNDLAND. which I would gladly consecrate, some future time. They all appeared hearty and earnest in the cause, and certainly do not seem to have deteriorated in Church feeling through their removal from Carbo- near. I was sorry to leave them. Friday, August 31 5^.— I greatly hoped, (if it should please God,) that I might get away early this morning, if I might be fortunate enough to reach Twillingate by to-morrow, but it was other- wise ordered. There was no wind till nine o'clock, and then ahead. The captain, however, seemed anxious to get out, thinking he might find a better wind outside. I allowed him, as in other cases, to follow his own judgment. I went, however, on shore to visit the proposed graveyard, according to promise. Many of the people met me. I explained what should be done in order to consecration. Several Frenchmen are buried alongside the people of the settlement. I then took leave of the people, some- what more abruptly than I intended, for I thought they were following me to the water, and when I looked back, they were all standing near the graves. As soon as I returned on board, about ten o'clock, the captain went to sea ; but no sooner were we Ci^tside than the wind entirely failed, and we kept drifting to the northward and eastward till six o'clock. It became rather hazy also, so that our prospect of reaching Twillingate to-morrow is a very poor one ; worse than if ve had remained in the harbour — more haste thai* ffood speed. I hope I have not been impatient ; I certainly am YQry ^' bishop's visitation, 1849. 99 anxious to get forward, yet I can truly say that for my own pleasure I would very gladly remain here till next week. As this seems the last place I shall visit on this side Cape St. John, and the last place on what is called the French shore where there are any families of English people, members of the Church, it will be expedient to note down now what seems requisite and possible to be accomplished for the religious benefit of the settlers here and their children. There would be probably twenty children for a school at Quirpon, and twenty- five at St. Anthony, but several of these of an age that would not allow of their being boarders away from home. One school, therefore, for the two places would hardly suffice, and yet it seems difficult, if not impos- sible, to maintain a schoolmaster or schoolmistress in each. It would seem, then, that the only resource would be a teacher who might divide his time be- tween the two places. A residence or lodging would be required in each place ; and a school-room, which, having a small appendage as a chancel, might be used for divine service. It would be very de- sirable that the schoolmaster should be at least in deacon's orders, and perhaps, in his absence from either place, some female might be found to keep the little children together, though this is hardly pro- bable. On the whole, I incline to think if any suitable person could be found to encounter the difficulties and disagreeables of such a life, he might do great good by dividing his time and labour between (Quirpon and St. Anthony, visiting twice a-year the r ^U'.'^^ f;.l ! ,i:.;)' i L 100 DIOCESE OF NEWFOUNDLAND. intermediate settlements at Griquet, St. Lunaire, and Braha. But where, oh ! where does such a man reside ; full of zeal, fuller of discretion, fullest of charity. There would be considerable difficulty, I fear, in providing and furnishing the necessary buildings. lOOl in each place, with the labour of the people, might suffice. But the man — gold cannot purchase the right one. Pray ye, therefore, the Lord of the harvest, that He will send forth labourers into his harvest. We continued the whole day, till nine o'clock at night, within five miles of the land. There was a strong smell of burning wood in the evening, and the moon rose apparently obscured with smoke. There is probably, therefore, some great fire on shore. So ends the month of August, which has been, I thank God, remarkably fine and favourable to my work. Saturday f September \st. — It was thick this morning till nine o'clock ; when the fog broke, we discovered that we had passed close to Groais or Gray's Island, and had left it about six or seven miles behind. The wind was ahead, and the prospect of reaching Twil- lingate, by to-morrow morning, very small. The sea ran rather high, and the sailing in consequence was far from agreeable. It rained also frequently during the day. At sunset the sky suddenly cleared, and the clouds in the west were, in an instant, lighted up and burnished in the most glorious and dazzling style. The wind also came more fair, viz. from the westward, and the sea gradually settled down into a more contented and comfortable state. Should bishop's visitation, 1849. 101 laire, such ullest culty, ssary nir of annot 5, the forth Dck at was a nd the There e. So '. thank a^A.* dyaBi} KovpoTp6^rjftmjtmfmL' 128 DIOCESE OF NEWFOUNDLAND. 11 ■ but tlie people soon assembled, and the little cliurcli was well filled — the men predominated considerably. The candidates for Confirmation knelt down the length of the centre passage from the reading-desk to the door of the church, first the females, and the males after, separately. Most of the males were adults and fine sturdy fellows, serious and reverent withal. The females were equally fine specimens of humanity, and though somewhat, shy, not awkward nor irreverent — very different all from what the ap- pearance of tlieir church would lead you to expect. I was more than pleased, for all, I knew, was native and natural, or at least not due to direction and dis- cipline. We returned as we came, in the boat. Mr. Wood and Mr. Baggs remained behind, there being an expectation of several candidates from Ireland's Eye and British Harbour, for whom I promised to hold a service to-morrow. Tuesday/, October 9th. — Happily the morning was fine. Mr. Moreton, directly after breakfast, w^ent on shore to measure a graveyard at Old Bonaventure, which is prepared for consecration. At ten o'clock we started in our boat for New Bonaventure. We made the distance in little more than half an hour. We found a larger number assembled for Confirma- tion than yesterday. The little temple was crowded ; an amazing store of stout blue jackets, stowed in the gallery, showed great attention and devotion. About thirty persons confirmed. I addressed them. Mr. Wood gave notice of my intention to consecrate the graveyard at Old Bonaventure in the evening. BISIIOr*S VISITATION, 1849. 129 After tlie service, I called at the houses of the two principal planters, who have each reared up large families, and are living in comfort and respec- tability, by merely pursuing industriously the old- fashioned method of fishing with hook and line at liome. One of these provide" a lodging for the clergyman, and the other his board at every visit. One has twelve children living, and all but one at home ; the other as many, or more, but scattered ; a daughter is married to a stout and stout-hearted ^.ianter, living at Ireland's Eye, who lamented in most feeling terms the "pitiful" state in whicli th.ey and their neighbours at British Harbour were left without a pastor or teacher (a population, with the Bonaventures, of four hundred Church mem- bers). '"Tis true, 'tis pity; pity 'tis, 'tis true." No Mission seems more to require an additional Mis- sionary. I walked with Messrs. Wood and Jones to Old Eonaventure, the rest of our party went rour ' in the boat. I examined the graveyard, whic ' 3 : d-^cently fenced, and in the corner is the shell of a bv. 1 ding intended for a church. The frame is boarded, and about half the roof ; a few loose boards cover half the floor. No windows or cioor ; but as the evening was warm and still, I determined to have prayers there before consecrating the ground. I ent my lectern on shore, with a covering for a tx*}^. Three chairs were provided, and a plank along one side for some of the congregation. There was a good store of Millars and Ivamys from New Bonaventure, and the rest of the congregation were of 130 DIOCESE OF NEWFOUNDLAND. Hi m. this place, but there are many adversaries. The evening was so warm, that ve felt no want of roof or windows. The half floor gave sufficient space for the congregation. After the prayers, I explained the nature and purpose of the service of Consecration, and we then proceeded as elsewhere. I again ad- dressed the people on the ground, and expressed a hope that I might be spared to consecrate their church, though, ai, / ^' nre within a mile of the new Bonaventure churchj could not perceive that the need was great of any additional place of worship. It seemed strange that this finale, or last service of my visitation, should be performed in an un- finished church, falling to decay before it had reached maturity or completion. It is capable of being made a sufl3cien^ and handsome church, (as wooden churches be,) and on that account, that there might be one decent church, decently arranged and fur- nished, in the Mission, I should be very thankful to see it finished. But where are the means, and who will direct and superintend, and above all, who will serve God and the people therein, and offer up the spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ ? I found the captain ready to depart, and we weighed anchor about half-past five o'clock. Wednesday^ October 10th. — We were becalmed nearly the whole night, to the great content, I be- lieve, of my passengers. About six o'clock a light breeze came ahead, but before ten o'clock it veered and was quite fair ; and we came to anchor again in bishop's visitation, 1849. 131 Trinity Harbour soon after eleven o'clock. Prnyers in the church immediately. I proposed to preach in the evening, and notice was given of service at half- past six o'clock. I then went with Mr. Wood and Moreton in a boat (kindly furnished with four hands by Mr. Slade) to Trouty, a long five miles. Here, as in Old Bonaventure, the shell of a building has been set up, intended for a school-room and place of worship. The dwelling-place of the teacher was to have been over the whole school-room. The building is rather more advanced — and advanced to decay — than that at Bonaventure, having been much racked by the wind. An old man, named Brown, accompanied us, and made a very agreeable cicerone. We walked back through some of the most lovely scenery I have ever seen in Newfoundland or elsewhere. Went to evening service at half-past six ; when I preached. A tolerable congregation. TImrsdai/, October llth. — The wind was dead ahead, and there was no choice. Several persons applied to Mr. Wood this morning, expressing their regret that they had not been enabled to attend for Confirmation on Sunday ; and I, therefore, promised that if I remained to-morrow, I would hold a Con- firmation in the morning. Friday, October 12th. — The wind still ahead. The Confirmation was deferred till the afternoon. The afternoon service commenced at three o'clock. Four females and twenty-six males were presented, chiefly adults. I congratulated myself and them on K 2 132 DIOCESE OF NEWFOUNDLAND. mii my journey having been delayed, and that I was thereby enabled to perform this service for their edification (as I trust) and the glory of God. I greatly fear the preparation by and for them has been but brief and perfunctory. Satwday^ October ISih. — To sail, or not to sail ? that was the question this morning, on which, un- fortunately, I had to come to a lesolution. After long consideration, I determined to remain, as the wind was not sufficiently fair to afTord a good pro- spect of our reaching St. John's to-day ; and know- ing that Mr. Wood had given notice of the Holy Communion at Salmon Cove to-morrow, and that he both desired and needed help, I thought it would be barbarous to leave him and his under such cir- cumstances, and probably to spend the Sunday at sea. I therefore countermanded the order which had been given to sail. After prayers I visited with Mr. Wood several of the respectable planters, and took a pleasant walk with him and Moreton to Sot's Cove, which is one of the many beautiful arms of this wonderful harbour. Sunday^ October lith. — I walked with Mr. More- ton to Salmon Cove, sending my robes, &c. round in the boat : the distance about five miles. We arrived a quarter before eleven o'clock. Service commenced about a quarter after eleven. I celebrated the Lord's Supper, assisted by Mr. Moreton in the distribution. About twenty communicated. Directly after the service, I proceeded with Mr. Moreton to English Harbour, where, after taking the refreshment we bishop's visitation, 1849. 13S had brought, at the house of Mr. J. Penny, we went robed to the church, which was very crowded : people sitting on the stops of the gallery, and in the passage. We had a pleasant walk back to Trinity, and drank tea with Mr. Wood. After tea I ex- amined his children in the Catechism, and was well pleased with their answers. Monday^ October I5th. — The wind being this morning tolerably fair, and the day fine, the Church ship spread her wings for her last flight, if it please God, this season ; with good prospect of reaching St. John's by night. We passed between Baccalieu and the main land about two o'clock, and put into the Bay de Verde, where, while the Church ship stood on and off, I went on shore in my boat to arrange with Mr. Rouse about my visit, a month hence, to his Mission. I was welcomed by the men with a discharge of sealing guns. I did not stay to sit down, but after making the necessary inquiries, returned at once to the Church ship, and proceeded, with no intention of making any after call or landing, till I should reach, if it please God, my, or at least the Church ship's, resting place. Off Conception Bay the wind failed, and so my hope of reaching our destination by night was defeated. Tuesday, October 1 ^^th. — A breeze sprang up about six o'clock this morning, and by seven o'clock we were off the Narrows, and the pilot on board. On reach- ing the Battery, I descried Mr. and Mrs. Grey on the rocks, looking out for us, and at us. Before we had made our last tack, Mr. Bridge was on board ; » ' :!i . 134 I>IOCESE OF NEWFOUNDLAND. and soon after, Mr. Johnson, with Mr. and Mrs. Grey. The whole party joined with us in prayer and thanksgiving, and then partook of our ship's breakfast, which was in good keeping, having neither soft bread, nor riilk, nor fresh butter, — nothing but tea and sugar, poik, biscuit, and salt butler ; but I trow none complained or thought of the viands — we were satisfied for the nonce with each other's company and discourse. Soon after nine o'clock, we went on shore straight to St. Thomas's Church, where, with my companions, I returned humble and hearty thanks for our safe return. My greetings to the children of the schools were conveyed in the way of a holiday — ^and, altogether, it seemed a day of rejoicing and praise. Thus ends my fourth Mis- sionary trip, in the Church ship, of sixteen weeks, save two days. Praise be to God. APPENDIX. The following is a list of the Bishop's peculiar services during the Visitation : — Churches Consecrated at — Herring Neck Sept. 7 Change Islands — 13 Fool's Island — 19 Grave Yards Consecrated at — Lower Burgeo July 15 Upper Burgeo — L'Anso Amour Aug. 10 Herring Neck Sept. 7 Change Islands — 13 Greenspond — 17 Old Bonaventure Oct. 9 Confirmations at — Sandy Point July 29 Moreton's Harbour Sept. 6 Herring Neck — 7 Twillingate — 9 Togo — 12 Change Islands — 13 Greenspond — 16 Pinchard's Island — 18 136 DIOCESE OF NEWFOUNDLAND. 1 I Confirmations (continued.) Swain's Island Sept. 18 Fool's Island Fair Island . . Gooseberry Island King's Cove . . Keels .... Salvage — Flat Islands — Catalina — Lonavista — English Harbour Oct. Salmon Cove — Trinity 7 & Xew Bonaventure 8 & 19 20 21 23 21 25 25 29 30 t) (J 12 9 Names of the settlements at which services were performed, with the distance of each from the pre- ceding place : Day of Arrival. Name of Place. Distance. June 30 Burin . . . . .180 miles. .July 3 Lamalinc . . . . 40 — 9 La Poele . . . . 125 — — 12 Burgeo . . . . . 30 — 17 Grandy's Passage . . 45 18 Baker's Tickle . 2 — 19 Burnt Islands . 3 — 20 Rose Blanche . . . 7 24 Port aux Basques . 19 — 2G Codroy . . . . 21 — — Great Codroy . . . 4 — Little Codroy . 2 ■ ■■■ — 27 St. George's Bay . CO — August 1 Bay of Islands . . 84 — — . 5 Trout River . . . 32 — Bonne Bay . . . 11 - — 6 Cow Cove . . . . 21 3 were le pre- m:^ APPENDIX. Day of Arrival. Name ol" Place. Uisturite. August 8 Fortcau . . . . 105 miles. — 10 L'Anso Amour . . 4 — — 11 M Blanc Sablon . . . 13 — -18|< Red Bay . . . . 35 — Battle Harbour . . (12 ~ -21^ St. Francis* Ilarboui • 21 — 28 Henley Harbour . . 50 — 25 ^Chateau . . . . 4 — 27 Quirpon . . . . 27 — 29 Griguet. . . . S — — St. Lunaire . . . :i — — 30 St. Anthony's. . . 15 September 3 Twillingatc . . 115 — 5 More ton's Harbour . 7 — 6 Herring Neck . . 17 — — 10 Fogo . 15 — 13 Change Islands . 6 - — 16 Grcenspond . . . 90 — -- 18 Pinchard's Island 12 Swain's Island . . it — 19 Fool's Island . . . 3 — — 20 Fair Island . . . 12 Gooseberry Island . 8 21 King's Cove . . . 24 24 Keels Cove . . . 5 Salvage 12 — — 25 Flat Islands . . . 7 — 26 Catalina . . . . 36 — 30 Bonavista . . . . 10 October 2 Trinity . . . . 32 — 6 English harbour . . 6 — — — Salmon Cove . . . 1 — — 8 New Bonaventure . 17 — — 9 Old Bonaventure . 2 — 16 St. John's . . . . 60 i;j' ^ 138 DIOCESK or NKWFOLNDLAND. C N F I U M A T IONS, 1849. PJuce. St. Gnonoii's Hay I Moreton'8 IIaruour I IlF.HBiNd Neck f TWILLIXGATK I I'or.o (;HAN(iE ISLANJ>n 1 Grf.enspond I Pxnciiahd's Island.., Swain's ditto .. '' Fool's ditto .. Faiu ditto .. (ioOSEBERRY ditto .. King's Cove Keels ditto SALVAaE Flat Islands Catalina bonavista English IIarbour . Salmon Cove Trinity Bonaventure ( Mnlr. I KcuiaIc. .1 2'J i:» 30 10 20 11 {) 1 7 13 20 19 11 17 7 11 4 7 72 22 344 10 .') 24 20 .50 l.-) .'•).■) I'J r> 7 7 20 17 11 U 16 9 10 8 23 79 33 452 Total. i;! I>a). .'i.') 80 2.') 81 ;;() j 14 8 ; 14 ! 33 37 30 20 ;i3 IG 21 12 30 151 55 796 July 29 iSopt. 6 I. 7 M 9 „ 12 „ 13 ,, K! ., 18 „ 18 ,, 10 M 20 „ 21 M 23 M 24 ,, 23 „ 25 ,. 29 „ 30 Oct. 6 6 „7&12 ,, 8& 9 A 1 2!^ (i 7 12 i:j . IS . IS . 10 , 20 , 21 „ 23 ,. 24 ,. 2J „ 25 EXPENSES OP THE VOYAfJR OP VISITATION, 1849. A Several of my friends having expressed a wish to know the expense entailed upon me by my Voyages of Visitation, I did this year keep a regular account of every item of expenditure ; and I believe the total amount exhibits a fair average. E. N. 1. Repairs. Considerable repairs are required every year ; and, of course, more and more extensive, as time brings on decay. A new deck and new copper are now much required, or rather quite necessary ; which will occasion a heavy outlay. 2. Gear, or ship-furniture, requires renewal in some parts every year. These two items constitute the '* wear and tear " of a vessel, and always are taken into account in estimating the expenses. 3. Fitting-out. When a vessel has been stripped, and laid Tip in dock, some expense must, of course, be in- curred in again setting up the rigging, bending the sails, and otherwise fitting for sea; which should be done under the captain's eye. The other items need no explanation. The Church-Ship was brought from the dock the last week in May; and nearly a month was occupied in repairing, painting, and fitting out. 140 DIOCESE OF NEWFOUNDJ.AND. m '£^ Pishop embarked with bis frieuds, and sailed from' St. John's, on the 28th of June. Mr. Gilford left on the 16th of August. The test remained on board the whole voyage — nearly four month i. With the ex- ception of the loss of an anchor, the vessel received no damage. The crew consisted of a captain, mate, and four sea- n.suj with a steward and cabin-boy : in the cabin were the Bishop and his four companions. — thirteen persons in all. Visitors were frequently entertained on board, but al ways with simplicity and frugality. 1 ! 1. i?e/j«iV5— SaJl-maker, Carpenter, Painter, &c 2. Cmr— ShipPui-niture 31 9 5| Cabin ditto . . 8 10 6 S, Fitting-out — Captain .800 , Seamen & Labourers . 15 £ , s. d. 44 12 9 39 19 lU 23 4. Provisions, including Wine, Spi- rits, &c 117 10 5. Wages — Captain, Seamen & Ser- vants 116 8 8 . 20 8 9 14 8 9 2 9 7 2 11 Hi 6. insurance . . . . . . 7. Light dues and Clearance 8. Pilotage at various places 9. A new Anchor .... 10. Stripping and Laying-up £389. 15 9 — r a ^ , '•■' U. CLAT, PaiNTER, BRKAD STKXKT HllJU,') m liled left [>ard ex- di no sea- were rsons loard, "'^ ■^:. n ^4\'-^>^i . 9 8 Hi 9 /^