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air, so cold that the captain had called for his 

 mittens as he was beating up the harbor. A 

 brief plunge into the sea and a quick spramble 

 back removed all sense of fatigue. 



Ernest was alone on board quietly cooking 

 the dinner when something made him look 

 out of the galley and he found that the Sea 

 Star had dragged her anchor from the bottom 

 into deeper water. He hastily let out more 

 cable and prevented her putting to sea pre- 

 maturely. When we did get off the sea was 

 running high, lashed by a strong southwest 

 wind, and we passed out of the harbor under 

 a jib and reefed foresail for our thirty-three 

 miles' run for Mutton Bay. We soon passed 

 ile de la Providence, a smooth, red rock where 

 a bleak, weather-beaten church stood out 

 prominently on the ridge. This is the guiding 

 star of the inhabitants, some fifteen or twenty 

 families, who are scattered about in the archi- 

 pelago of the Head of the Whale, THe-d,-la- 

 Baleine de Quest. It is the Mission of St. 

 Anne, formerly St. Magloire, and was built 

 with much labor and sacrifice through the 

 zeal of the Abb6 Th^berge in 1894. Huard 

 says, " Bad weather, most furious winds, — 



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