TO ESQUIMAUX POINT 
billed auk or two. Lucas, who visited the 
islands in 1887, found ‘a few Gannets — in 
spite of the incessant persecution of the Indians 
who regularly make a clean sweep there.” 
The persecution continued and no gannets have 
nested there for fifteen years. The birds have 
a sentimental attachment for the spot, how- 
ever, and visit it every year, and on June 21st 
we saw about thirty of these splendid birds fly- 
ing near the island. 
Of an entirely different character from the 
forlorn little villages we had passed was the 
trig settlement of Mingan, some six miles be- 
yond Long Point, protected from the sea by 
a wooded island which shelters a deep sound. 
The dominating feature here was the Hudson’s 
Bay Company’s Post neatly fenced and painted 
as all these posts are. This was flanked on the 
west by the Indian village, and on the east by 
the substantial house of a salmon fisherman, 
where we made our home during the latter part 
of June for a week. 
While the Seven Islands are granitic, and 
rise steeply to rounded summits, the group of 
Mingan Islands which begins off Long Point at 
the Perroquets and extends for fifty miles to St. 
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