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and Weeso was severely criticised for not specifying 

 clearly what was wanted. 



"There could be no question now about the propri- 

 ety of landing. Old Weeso took all the Indians off to 

 a rock, where, bareheaded and in line, they kneeled 

 facing the east, and for half an hour he led them in 

 prayer, making often the sign of the cross. The head- 

 wind died away as they came to the boat and again 

 we resumed the weary rowing, a labour which all were 

 supposed to share, but it did not need an expert to see 

 that Beaulieu, Snuff, and Terchon merely dipped their 

 oars and let them drift a while; the real rowing of that 

 cumbrous old failure of a sailboat was done by Billy 

 Lou tit and Yum Freesay." 



Platygobio gracilis 



