LITTLE MECATTINA AND MUTTON BAY 



nothing prevents the people, if only there is a 

 priest to preside at the religious offices, com- 

 ing with their wives and children in their fish- 

 ing-boats to the Chapel. When they go au 

 large for the fish or when they return, the 

 sight of their chapel surmounted by its pretty 

 tower fills them with joy." The island is so 

 rocky that there is no soil in which those that 

 die can be buried, and the cemetery is situated 

 on the island of Kenty or the TUe d. la Baleine, 

 another smooth red rock which pushes out into 

 the sea like a great whale's head. Huard 

 quotes from the Abb6 Gagnon, who says, "If 

 the voyage to the isle of Kenty became im- 

 practicable, one must refrain from dying under 

 penalty of being buried much later and almost 

 without regret; this prospect suffices, it ap- 

 pears, to keep everybody alive." Another cu- 

 rious circumstance about this mission is that 

 all of the inhabitants retire to their winter 

 houses three miles inland after the fishing- 

 season, and the greater part of the year must 

 be spent, as in the case of the Indians, with- 

 out spiritual succor. Father Hesry, of Long 

 Point, Blanc Sablon, about one hundred and 

 fifty miles to the eastward, is the spiritual 



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