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miles further on, which we reached early. The 

 man in charge of the camp, a Mr. Tremblay, lived 

 there with his family. They were all very oblig- 

 ing and did all they could to make us comfortable. 

 There were a lot of spare bunks, which he told us 

 we were welcome to use. There was an immense 

 box stove, which the poor fellow, thinking we 

 might be cold, kept filling up with wood all night. 

 It was awfully hot at times. 



We got up very early, as we had a long and 

 hard tramp before us, about twenty-nine miles of 

 heavy walking, and we just managed to make it, 

 arriving at Bersimis after dark. On the Bersi- 

 mis river we met Mr. P. C. Dupuis, the Manager 

 of the Bersimis Lumber Company, who had come 

 to meet us with his horse and sleigh and drove 

 us to his house, where we were well taken care of 

 by Mrs. D. The effect of the soft walking told 

 on the eldest Labrie (Alfred), and the next morn- 

 ing he was laid up with a swollen knee, so we 

 were forced to stay one day more at Bersimis. In 

 the afternoon, Mr. Dupuis drove us over to the 

 Indian Mission, where we were the guests of the 

 Revd. Fathers Arnaud and Babel, the first of 

 whom is not only a D.D., but an M.D. as well. 

 He doctored Alfred's knee so well that the next 

 day most of the swelling was gone. 



As the ice was set inshore for some distance, 

 the Revd. Fathers and Mr. Dupuis insisted on 

 driving us down about four miles over it, which 



