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on the summer reserve, but once beyond hearing of the 

 missions some remnant of the old rites is not far to seek. 

 On the other hand, the church calendar is carried every- 

 where over the Montagnais country; each day a pin is 

 moved forward and pinned through the paper at the suc- 

 ceeding date, and feast-days and Sundays are pretty well 

 observed. Although the Oblates do not require the people 

 to bring their dead to the shore, they do it when possible, 

 for burial in consecrated ground; yet along most of the 

 travelled routes of the south are a few graves, marked 

 sometimes by wooden cross and fence. The burial spots 

 are held in respect by the passers-by ; camps are not made 

 very near, nor the peace of the place disturbed. 



