Adrift on an Ice-Pan

Adrift on an Ice-Pan, by Wilfred
T. Grenfell

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Title: Adrift on an Ice-Pan
Author: Wilfred T. Grenfell
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ADRIFT ON AN ICE-PAN
[Illustration: (signed) Wilfred Grenfell]

ADRIFT ON AN ICE-PAN
BY WILFRED THOMASON GRENFELL M.D. (OXON), C.M.G.
ILLUSTRATED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY DR. GRENFELL AND
OTHERS

BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

COPYRIGHT 1909 BY WILFRED THOMASON GRENFELL ALL
RIGHTS RESERVED
PUBLISHED JUNE 1909

CONTENTS
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH ix

ADRIFT ON AN ICE-PAN 1
APPENDIX 59

ILLUSTRATIONS
WILFRED THOMASON GRENFELL, M.D. (OXON), C.M.G
Frontispiece
THE SETTLEMENT AT ST. ANTHONY 2
ON A JOURNEY FROM ST. ANTHONY 4
TRAVELLING ON BROKEN ICE 8
PART OF DR. GRENFELL'S TEAM 12
DR. GRENFELL AND JACK 20 WITH THE JACKET MADE FROM
MOCCASINS
DOC 30
MEMORIAL TABLET, ST. ANTHONY'S HOSPITAL,
NEWFOUNDLAND 54

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
"MOST NOBLE VICE-CHANCELLOR, AND YOU, EMINENT
PROCTORS:
"A citizen of Britain is before you, once a student in this University,
now better known to the people of the New World than to our own.
This is the man who fifteen years ago went to the coast of Labrador, to
succor with medical aid the solitary fishermen of the northern sea; in
executing which service he despised the perils of the ocean, which are
there most terrible, in order to bring comfort and light to the wretched

and sorrowing. Thus, up to the measure of human ability, he seems to
follow, if it is right to say it of any one, in the footsteps of Christ
Himself, as a truly Christian man. Rightly then we praise him by whose
praise not he alone, but our University also is honored. I present to you
Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, that he may be admitted to the degree of
Doctor in Medicine, HONORIS CAUSA."
Thus may be rendered the Latin address when, in May, 1907, for the
first time in its history, the University of Oxford conferred the honorary
degree in medicine. With these fitting words was presented a man
whose simple faith has been the motive power of his works, to whom
pain and weariness of flesh have called no stay since there was
discouragement never, to whom personal danger has counted as
nothing since fear is incomprehensible. "As the Lord wills, whether for
wreck or service, I am about His business." On November 9th of the
preceding year, the King of England gave one of his "Birthday Honors"
to the same man, making him a Companion of St. Michael and St.
George (C.M.G.).
Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, second son of the Rev. Algernon Sydney
Grenfell and Jane Georgiana Hutchinson, was born on the
twenty-eighth day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, at
Mostyn House School, Parkgate, by Chester, England, of an ancestry
which laid a firm foundation for his career and in surroundings which
fitted him for it. On both sides of his inheritance have been exhibited
the courage, patience, persistence, and fighting and teaching qualities
which are exemplified in his own abilities to command, to administer,
and to uplift.
On his father's side were the Grenvilles, who made good account of
themselves in such cause as they approved, among them Basil
Grenville, commander of the Royalist Cornish Army, killed at
Lansdown in 1643 in defence of King Charles.
"Four wheels to Charles's wain: Grenville, Trevanion, Slanning,
Godolphin slain."
There was also Sir Richard Grenville, immortalized by Tennyson in

"The Revenge," and John Pascoe Grenville, the right-hand man of
Admiral Cochrane, who boarded the Spanish admiral's ship, the
Esmeralda, on the port side, while Cochrane came up on the starboard,
when together they made short work of the capture. Nor has the strain
died out, as is demonstrated in the present generation by many of Dr.
Grenfell's cousins, among them General Francis Wallace Grenfell, Lord
Kilvey, and by Dr. Grenfell himself on