liveyers

Updated: May 13, 2025

For t' Red Island Shoal is only three or four miles from t' land, and there be liveyers, as us knew, almost opposite. If t' wind had held in t' same direction even then us might have escaped, but it dropped suddenly about day dawn, and there were huge swatches o' water between us and t' mainland before it came light enough to try and get across.

Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell - Labrador Days: Tales of the Sea Toilers