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some of whom had been there for two years, and some 

 had just arrived from the far interior, and cast their eyes 

 upon the ocean for the first time. Here we saw Otelne 

 the Tongue, Arkaske the Arrow, also Domenique and 

 Bartelmi, who had traversed the country from Hamilton 

 Inlet, and drawn a map of the Ashwanipi and the Moisie. 

 We also made the acquaintance of a score of other 

 Montagnais, who were glad to come into our tents and 

 receive a small present of tea and tobacco. 



Some of the Nasquapees formerly belonged to a party 

 of fifteen who had descended the Moisie from their 

 hunting grounds two years ago at the solicitations of 

 Domenique, to see the robe noire and the wonders of the 

 coast. Seven of the fifteen had died, four had gone back 

 to their own wilds, and four remained at Seven Islands, 

 chiefly on account of sickness and debility. On the day 



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of our arrival one of the four that remained died and was 

 buried by Pere Arnaud. The remaining three talked of 

 going back with those of their race who had just come 

 down the Moisie, after the priest left Seven Islands. We 

 pitched our tents at some distance from the Indian lodges, 

 where a supply of dry wood might be obtained without 

 much trouble, and where we should also be tolerably free 

 from their importunities. 



When we met Domenique at Seven Islands we hardly 

 knew him again. He had thrown off his caribou-skin coat 

 and leggings, and was dressed out in a second-hand suit of 

 European clothes. His face had lost that worn and half- 

 starved aspect it possessed when we met him at the first 

 gorge of the Moisie ; he looked sleek and contented, and 

 was well pleased to see Michel again. His squaw and 



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