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for maintaining the law and preventing smuggling. 

 The people are, as a rule, law-abiding; but crimes, 

 especially among the half-breeds and Eskimo, go 

 unpunished. In one settlement a lay reader and 

 school teacher are established; in another an aspir- 

 ant to the Methodist ministry, while settlements up 

 two long inlets enjoy similar privileges. These men 

 are all doing excellent work, as is a Prebysterian 

 student from Dalhousie University in the Straits of 

 Belle Isle. 



Most school work can be done in winter, for in 

 summer only those too young to work can be 

 spared ; and if they are old enough to journey alone 

 to and from the school, they are old enough to do 

 something at the fishery. Only a small percentage 

 of Livyeres can read or write. Every summer it is 

 usual for a Roman Catholic priest, a Methodist 

 minister, and an Anglican clergyman to visit as 

 many stations as they can on the first 400 miles of 

 coast. They are passed along in boats from place 

 to place by the too willing people, who, irrespective 

 of creed, extend their kindly hospitality to all alike. 

 In places wood buildings have been put up voluntarily 

 by the men in their spare time, for Sunday services, 

 conducted usually by one of themselves. Our own 

 gatherings, at times too large for the Albert's hold 

 or these little buildings, were held in fish stores 

 ashore, cleared for the purpose, or in the open 

 air, one of the countless boulders serving for a 

 natural rostrum. I have seen the same place serve 



