Extracts from a Journal of a Voyage of Visitation in the Hawk, 1859

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Church in the Colonies. No. XXXVII.
EXTRACTS FROM A JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE OF VISITATION,
IN THE "HAWK," 1859,
by
THE BISHOP OF NEWFOUNDLAND.

[Greek: "Ou toi aneu Theou eptato dexios ornis, Kirkos"]--HOM. Odys.

London: Printed for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel; and
Sold by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Great Queen
Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields; 4, Royal Exchange; 16, Hanover Street,
Hanover Square; Rivingtons, Bell and Daldy, Hatchards, and All
Booksellers.
1860. June.
London: R. Clay, Printer, Bread Street Hill.

EXTRACTS FROM A JOURNAL,
&c. &c.

PREFATORY LETTER
BERMUDA,
March 15, 1860.
"MY DEAR HAWKINS,
"You are aware that I have ceased for some years to forward to the
Society the Journals of my Voyages of Visitation.[1] It did not appear
to me that the cause of the Society, or of my diocese, would be much
advanced, or individuals much interested or edified by detailed reports
of visits and services with which those who had read the former
Journals would be familiar.
"The sad state of religious destitution in many settlements in
Newfoundland and Labrador had been, I thought, sufficiently shown;
and the benefits and blessing conferred, and to be conferred, by the
Society, thankfully stated and fully demonstrated. I have, therefore,
considered it better and more becoming to confine myself to a bare and
brief newspaper statement of the places visited, and the services
performed, without any particular mention of the condition of the
inhabitants, and other incidents of the voyage.
"In my late visitation, however, I have been enabled to reach a portion
of the island, in which, though several hundred members of our Church
have long resided, no clergyman had ever before been seen. I refer to
White Bay, a remote district on the so-called French Shore of
Newfoundland. A large portion, nearly one-half of the coast of
Newfoundland (from Cape St. John on the N.E. to Cape Ray on the
S.W.), is called and known in the island by that name (the French
Shore); in consequence of the permission, granted by treaty, to the
French to fish for cod on, or round that portion. The natives and

inhabitants of Newfoundland, and the British generally, have not
considered it worth their while to prosecute the fishery to any extent in
these parts, or to settle in them; the operations of the French fishermen,
being assisted and systematized by their Government, are on such an
extensive scale as to exclude competition, and to render their privilege
practically an exclusive one. Nevertheless, as the parts of the island so
assigned, or given up, are among the most productive, not only in fish,
but in game, and occasionally in seals (which are there taken in nets
with comparatively little trouble or expense), families have from time
to time migrated to and settled in these remote districts, scattering
themselves widely, with the view of obtaining the means of subsistence
in larger abundance and with greater ease. Now, as there are no roads to,
or on, this shore, and each settlement therefore can only be approached
by sea, and by sea only for four or five months in the year, in any
vessel larger than a boat, it is exceedingly difficult to minister to, or
visit the inhabitants. Nevertheless, I have been enabled, by the aid of
my Church-ship, to visit, at intervals of four years, since 1848, most of
the settlements on this shore. In St. George's Bay,