CHAPTER XX. 
gOME OTHER THINGS ABOUT “OLA,’^ SHOWING THE READER HOW AN OLD 
WOMAN NEARLY LOST HER FAVOURITE MILCH-COW, AND HOW THEY CATCH 
FISH IN THAT OUT-OF-THE-WAY PART OF THE WORLD, ETC. ETC. WE 
ARRIVE AT PABIUS ISLAND, BAY OP TAOUSK, AND REGALE OURSELVES 
UPON WHORTLEBERRIES. 
From all tliat we could learn then and subsequently, 
it seems that the country hack of Ola is rather thinly 
populated, and that what people there are come down 
to the sea with the return of spring for the purpose of 
catching and cmnng supplies of the salmon which visit 
certain localities in countless shoals. They work at 
this business during most of their short summers, and 
then return before the approaching winter to their 
more sheltered homes with their provender, in the shape 
of smoked and dried fish. 
When they break out from the confinement of their 
long winters, they emigrate, with their horses, cows, 
dogs, and sleighs, to some such “summer resort” as 
Ola, -where they take possession of the houses that 
have been vacant all winter, and commence to catch 
their fish, and trade with any whaler that may visit 
them. They also often plant turnips from seed origin- 
ally obtained from said whalers, which in the short 
space of six -weeks will grow to double tbe size of one’s 
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