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to the people, and done most unselfish and heroic work in that lonely
station, which she has greatly enlarged and improved by her untiring
efforts. It forms an admirable halfway house between Battle and
Harrington Hospitals, each being about a hundred miles distant. A
local trader once wrote me: "Sister Bailey did good work last year.
That cottage hospital is a blessing to the people of this part of the
shore. Who would think that by a little act of kindness done forty-odd
years ago to an old soldier, we would now be reaping the benefit of
such an act."

Only one longer journey on foot on the Labrador coast is on record.
The traveller started from Quebec and walked to Battle Harbour. There
he turned north and walked to Nakvak Bay. The distance as the crow
flies is about fourteen hundred miles. But the man had no boat of his
own and only in one or two places accepted a passage. One bay on the
east coast runs in for some hundred and fifty miles. Over this he got
a boat fifty miles from the mouth. Round Kipokak and Makkovik, and the
bays south of Hopedale, he walked most of the way, and these run in
for forty miles. He carried practically nothing with him, and depended
on what boots and clothing the people gave him, eating berries and
whatever else he could find while he was in the country. Those who
housed him told me that they did not see any signs of madness about
him, except his avoidance of men and refusal to go in boats or mix
with others if he could in any way avoid it. He carried no gun. No one
knew who he was nor why he went on such a "cruise." Long before he
reached the North the theory that he was a murderer fleeing from
justice got started, and at some places a very careful watch was kept
over him. Arrived at Nakvak, he went to the house of everyone's
friend, George Ford. That is one of the most inaccessible places in
the world. No mail steamer ever goes there, and no schooner ever
anchors nearer than a few miles. It is at the bottom of a fjord
twenty-five miles long, with very precipitous cliffs two thousand feet
high on each side and bottomless water below. It was then thirty miles
from the nearest house, with ranges of mountains between, and was the
most northerly house on the Labrador. Here this phenomenon celebrated
his arrival by climbing up onto the ridge of the house, when lo! most
prosaic of accidents, he fell off and broke his neck. The puzzle has
always been why he elected to carry an unbroken