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mocassins were all worn through by the sharp pebbles, 

 and this caused me to walk in an unsteady and nautical 

 manner. 



" It is easy to perceive from the behaviour of the do- 

 mestic animals in these places that visitors are rare birds. 

 The dogs growl arid slink into corners ; even the cow and 

 the horse were much startled at our approach the former 

 especially behaved just as a wild deer when he catches 

 sight of a man. The people at these out-of-the-way posts 

 eat nothing from one year's end to another but salt food, 

 and, strange to say, they do not care about fresh meat. I 

 thought that fresh codfish would have been a welcome 

 dish to them ; but they never ate them until they had 

 been two or three days in salt. From their appearance, 

 I should not say that their food agreed with them." 



There are two salmon rivers in Anticosti the Jupiter 

 and Salmon rivers. The angling in neither of these has 

 as yet been let. They are poor angling rivers and very 

 inaccessible. 



