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land of Little Mecattina; inland was a maze 

 of low-lying land and water with higher land 

 beyond; towards the setting sun more water, 

 small islands, and an immense fiat coastal 

 plain, a boggy, barren land. We descended 

 through a valley whence the snow had evi- 

 dently just gone, as was shown by the brown 

 and dead vegetation of the previous summer 

 and by the fresh buds of the spring vegeta- 

 tion. Alders were hanging out their yellow 

 catkins and some of their leaves were just 

 imfolding, although close beside them other 

 alders had long since passed the stage of these 

 early activities. 



It was rather a relief to find the people all 

 speaking English here, although I could not 

 help noticing the lack of polite greetings with 

 which we were familiar among the French 

 inhabitants of the coast. One boy addressed 

 us with the remark, "Some 'ot, hey?" and 

 they were all complaining of the heat. My 

 thermometer registered 65°, but it was said 

 that at Sam Cox's house, where there was a 

 thermometer, the mercury had reached 72°, 

 and many had come to look at it. Part of their 

 sufferings may have been due to the fact that 



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