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By Wilfred T. Grenfell
A LABRADOR DOCTOR. The Autobiography ofWilfred Thomason Grenfell. Illustrated.
LABRADOR DAYS. Tales of the Sea Toilers.With frontispiece.
TALES OF THE LABRADOR. With frontispiece.
THE ADVENTURE OF LIFE.
ADRIFT ON AN ICE-PAN. Illustrated.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
Boston and New York
A LABRADOR DOCTOR
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF
WILFRED THOMASON GRENFELL
A LABRADOR DOCTOR
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF
WILFRED THOMASON GRENFELL
M.D. (OXON.), C.M.G.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY WILFRED T. GRENFELL
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
PREFACE
I have long been resisting the strong pressure from friends that wouldforce me to risk having to live alongside my own autobiography. Itseems still an open question whether it is advisable, or even whetherit is right—seeing that it calls for confessions. In the eyes of Godthe only alternative is a book of lies. Moreover, sitting down to writeone's own life story has always loomed up before my imagination as anadmission that one was passing the post which marks the last lap; andthough it was a justly celebrated physician who told us that we mightprofitably crawl upon the shelf at half a century, that added noattraction for me to the effort, when I passed that goal.
Thirty-two years spent in work for deep-sea fishermen, twenty-seven ofwhich years have been passed in Labrador and northern Newfoundland,have necessarily given me some experiences which may be helpful toothers. I feel that this alone justifies the writing of this story.
To the many helpers who have coöperated with me at one time or anotherthroughout these years, I owe a debt of gratitude which will never beforgotten, though it has been impossible to mention each one by name.Without them this work could never have been.
To my wife, who was willing to leave all the best the civilized worldcan offer to share my life on this lonely coast, I