GRAND ROMAINE AND OLD ROMAINE 



and attack me, coming sometimes within fif- 

 teen or twenty feet of my head. Search as 

 I would, however, I could not find the nest, 

 although I must have been as hot on the trail 

 as I felt. 



The next day was dark and easterly with 

 occasional rains, but we put to sea, and passed 

 an island that abounded in razor-billed auks, 

 eiders, and gulls, with here and there a puffin 

 and a murre. Some of these murres — very 

 properly known in England as foolish guille- 

 mots — nearly hit our sails as they flew by the 

 boat. On another island lived a family of fish- 

 ermen, natives of Anticosti, who would not 

 obey Menier's hunting-laws and had been de- 

 ported. 



We took refuge from the coming storm in 

 the harbor of Old Romaine, where there was 

 formerly a Hudson's Bay post, but now no 

 sign of human occupancy is to be discerned. It 

 is a well-protected basin perhaps a mile long 

 and a quarter of a mile broad, hemmed in by 

 numerous low rocky islands. 



It may have been here that Audubon landed, 

 for the distance from Natashquan would in- 

 dicate this region: "June 29. At three this 



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