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gave out the oldest boy drove a long distance to 

 the seashore, boiled down sea water and brought 

 back a small quantity of very bitter salt. 



Petit Ance Salt Island bordered on good 

 fishing grounds and as it was the only elevated 

 timber land for many miles, it was the natural 

 place for an Indian village. This brings to my 

 mind an interesting legend connected with the 

 Island. It seems that when white men first came 

 to this region they asked the Indians who lived on 

 it. The Indians replied, The Evil Spirit, and said 

 that neither they nor the white men would go 

 there. The legend which had come down to them 

 was that once upon a time the Evil Spirit got 

 angry, made a great noise and then killed all the 

 people on the Island. This points, no doubt, to 

 some volcanic disturbance in early times which 

 prevented the Indians from returning to live there. 



When the shafts were being sunk for the saft 

 mines there were found pieces of symmetrically 

 woven basket work along with charcoal, ashes and 

 many pieces of burned and rudely decorated 

 earthenware. While I was there such pieces were 

 being brought up from which I selected some 

 pretty specimens. The owner of the Island be- 

 lieved that many Indians must once have lived 



