Newfoundland, is closed from October until July. Dr. Simpson had a
little steamer, the Julia Sheridan, which carried him on his visits
to his patients among the coast folk. We were told by the captain
of the Virginia Lake that the Julia Sheridan would arrive at Indian
Harbour on the afternoon of the day we reached there; that she
would immediately steam to Rigolet and Northwest River with the
mails, and that we undoubtedly could arrange for a passage on her.
This was the reason that Hubbard elected to get off at Indian
Harbour.

The trained nurse, the cook, and the maid-of-all-work connected
with the Indian Harbour hospital ("sisters," they call them,
although they do not belong to any order) boarded the Virginia Lake
at Battle Harbour and went ashore with me in the ship's boat, when
I landed with the baggage. Hubbard and George went ashore in our
canoe. A line of Newfoundlanders and "livyeres" stood ready to
greet us upon our arrival. "Livyeres" is a contraction of live-
heres, and is applied to the people who live permanently on the
coast. The coast people who occasionally trade in a small way are
known as "planters." In Hamilton Inlet, west of Rigolet, all of
the trappers and fishermen are called planters. There the word
livyere is never heard, it having originated with with the
Newfoundland fishermen, who do not go far into the inlet.

The "sisters" who landed with us had difficulty in opening their
hospital, as the locks had become so rusted and corroded that the
keys would not turn. We offered our assistance, and after removing
the boards that had been nailed over the windows to protect them
from the winter storms, we found it necessary to take out a pane of
glass in order that Hubbard might unlatch a window, crawl through