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ocean are strongly exhibited by their behaviour as well 

 as by the questions they ask. They gaze at it without 

 speaking for some minutes, approach the huge waves 

 rolling up on the sandy beach, and look long and wonder- 

 ingly to the right and the left. Stooping down, they 

 touch the water with their finger and taste it, spitting it 

 out quickly. They ask many questions about the size of 



NASQUAPEES ON THE MOISIE. 



the ocean, how for it is across to land, its depth, the 

 kind of fish it contains, and whether devils live in it. 

 After their curiosity is satisfied on these points, they 

 appear to take no further interest in the matter. They 

 laugh at the schooner sailing by, gaze w r ith astonishment 

 at the immense number of cod fish which they see lying 

 on stages on the beach or brought in by the fishing boats, 



