Publisher's Synopsis
YOU must not be surprised because the adventures of Billy Topsail and a few of his friends fill this book. If all the adventures of these real boys were written the record would fill many books. This is not hard to explain. The British Colony of Newfoundland lies to the north of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and to the east of the Canadian Labrador. It is so situated that the inhabitants may not escape adventures. On the map, it looks bleak and far away and inhospitable-a lonely island, outlying in the stormy water of the Atlantic. Indeed, it is all that. The interior is a vast wilderness-a waste place. The folk are fishermen all.
