of any other food that we carried. Its ingredients are ground dried
beef, tallow, sugar, raisins and currants.

We had planned to go north from St. Johns on the Labrador mail boat
_Virginia Lake_, which, as I had been informed by the Reid-
Newfoundland Company, was expected to sail from St. Johns on her first
trip on or about June tenth. This made it necessary for us to leave
New York on the Red Cross Line steamer _Rosalind_ sailing from
Brooklyn on May thirtieth; and when, at eleven-thirty that Tuesday
morning, the _Rosalind_ cast loose from her wharf, we and our outfit
were aboard, and our journey of eleven long months was begun.

As I waved farewell to our friends ashore I recalled that other day
two years before, when Hubbard and I had stood on the _Silvia's_ deck,
and I said to myself:

"Well, this, too, is Hubbard's trip. His spirit is with me. It was
he, not I, who planned this Labrador work, and if I succeed it will be
because of him and his influence."

I was glad to be away. With every throb of the engine my heart grew
lighter. I was not thinking of the perils I was to face with my new
companions in that land where Hubbard and I had suffered so much. The
young men with me were filled with enthusiasm at the prospect of
adventure in the silent and mysterious country for which they were
bound.



CHAPTER II