“Newfoundland is a country where wind and fire make vicious company, but truly the wind will always make the country one of the “Big Breath.” The wind never lets people off. It bends them double, sniffs at them like dogs tempted by a bone; it snatches at the fashionable hat and the new hair-do; and in pioneer days it is recorded that the settlers went out tied together. Once, it is told, that a wrestler came to Newfoundland, and he became so tormented by the wind, that he stopped in the street to fight it.” Newfoundland History Book:The Caribou Hut: Enriched edition. The Story of a Newfoundland Hostel Source: The Caribou Hut: Enriched edition. The Story of a Newfoundland Hostel