Letter to Ida from Stephen Barton, Port Hood, 30 June 1867

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Letter to Ida from S.E.B., Port Hood, C.B, June 30, 1867. The letter is three pages. Barton writes that a school of blackfish went through the Strait of Canso yesterday that was “three miles long” and about 150 of them came into Port Hood Harbour. They are a species of whale. Everyone on shore went in the boats and frightened the fish and ran them on the sand. They then jumped into the water with axes and harpoons and killed them. He writes that they got one school of 64 and that “the water was as red with blood as clear blood itself”. The Port Hood office will be moved to Plaister Cove but probably not for a month or two. An envelope from the New York, New Foundland and London Telegraph Co. is included with Port Hood postmark.