[ Vincent / Newfoundland To Cochin, China ]
Lady Ethel Gwendoline Howard Vincent (1861 - ?) was an English author of travel works. She was the wife of Sir Charles Edward Howard Vincent, an English lawyer, police official, and politician.
"Lady Howard Vincent" is the name under which this book was published, as was her more well-known travel book Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water, The Journal of a Tour Through the British Empire and America. This book, first published in 1892, mentions Newfoundlands only once, in Chapter One:
We always think of Newfoundland as the land of fog, lobster, and cod, and know it best in connection with the breed of Newfoundland dogs. This race is degenerating and threatened with extinction, and there are scarcely any good specimens of these beautiful and intelligent dogs left in the island.
There was a fairly common sense, at the end of the 19th Century and through the first couple of decades of the 20th Century, that Newfoundlands were a breed in decline. Here is a list of works here at The Cultured Newf that treat this topic.