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_TO_
_THE CREW OF THE "STRATHCONA"_
Henry Bartlett, _Skipper_
Munden Clark, _Second Hand_
William Percy, _First Engineer_
John Scott, _Second Engineer_
Archie Butler, _Hospital Hand_
James Hiscock, _Cook_
Alec Sims, _Ship's Boy_
_TO THE READER_
This book pretends to no literary excellence; it has a far better
reason for existence--a larger justification. Its purpose is to spread
the knowledge of the work of Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, of the Royal
National Mission to Deep-Sea Fishermen, at work on the coasts of
Newfoundland and Labrador; and to describe the character and condition
of the folk whom he seeks to help. The man and the mission are worthy
of sympathetic interest; worthy, too, of unqualified approbation, of
support of every sort. Dr. Grenfell is indefatigable, devoted, heroic;
he is more and even better than that--he is a sane and efficient
worker. Frankly, the author believes that the reader would do a good
deed by contributing to the maintenance and development of the
doctor's beneficent undertakings; and regrets that the man and his
work are presented in this inadequate way and by so incapable a hand.
The author is under obligation to the editors of _Harper's Magazine_,
of _The World's Work_, and of _Outing_ for permission to reprint the
contributed papers which, in some part, go to make up the volume. He
wishes also to protest that Dr. Grenfell is not the hero of a certain
work of fiction dealing with life on the Labrador coast. Some unhappy
misunderstanding has arisen on this point. The author wishes to make
it plain that "Doctor Luke" was _not_ drawn from Dr. Grenfell.